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Author here.

You are right about the name confusion! It has been several years since the last commit to the /vmg/sundown and even if it was active it's not a very common Markdown implementation (although it's one of the best).



Actual author of Sundown here.

> even if it was active it's not a very common Markdown implementation

First, even if this was true, it's still _not_ OK to name your project Sundown.

Second, _my_ Sundown is the most used Markdown engine in the world. It has powered all Markdown rendering in GitHub.com and Reddit.com for more than 5 years, and it has rendered billions more documents than all other Markdown parsers out there.

Could you please not be an asshole and rename your project? It's really not that hard to come up with a name for a parser. Don't steal mine.


> Could you please not be an asshole and rename your project?

I have updated the blog post and changed the name to "SunSed Short-form HTML tags" it also better describes what it is.

I have high respect for you and your work and admit that the way I came up with the name was sloppy!


Thank you, I appreciate that. I'll point people at SunSed the next time they ask about MD alternatives. :)


This is still not appropriate. You should really change it.


Just to add in, this is really not ok


Actually, the name of the language is SunSed (same as the platform).

Sundown is the name of that one feature of the language that I explained in the article.

In our website https://www.sunsed.com we refer to the whole thing as SunSed language.


How often does one need to commit to a project in order to not have it's name stolen?


Please don't post acerbic swipes to Hacker News. Even if you have a point, it's not worth damaging the community for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html


Asking a legitimate, albeit slightly provocative and rhetorical question, is somehow the same as a community-damaging (!) acerbic swipe? Just, wow.




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