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This seems like a useful enough tool, but, good God, could they have picked a worse name? It doesn't rank for "typedef" on the first page of Google, and, while it does rank for "typedefs", it's in the middle of a bunch of stuff that is mostly explaining how typedefs work in C or C++.

It's reasonably easy to pick the thing that's related to computing if Google only shows a page of stuff that is obviously not programming-related. But, this is most likely going to get lost among the other computing-related items.



I'm rather impressed that such a domain could be registered as recently as 2017.


so was I :-)


People who name products really need to think about this - microsoft is the worst offender in this regard. Naming something which begins with a "." is stupid in the first place, but then you choose a word which could not be any more generic on the internet, and _then_ you create multiple versions of it with different variations. Even worse is these patterns are repeated across several products (e.g. xbox, visual studio code)




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