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This might be confused with the publishing system of the same name written in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/


Make me a market on the percentage overlap of people that use Racket to build things regularly with the amount of people using TailwindCSS to build things regularly and then use that interval to consider whether this will actually confuse anyone.


I don't do either and it confused me, because the Pollen publishing system is (a) also essentially a set of tools designed to make it easier to make web sites look better and (b) has been featured on Hacker News more than once.


What was the confusion? The title right now is "Pollen - A library of CSS variables inspired by TailwindCSS"

I get that I'm kind of contributing to the problem by even commenting here, but the incessant name-clash and "omg the design/contrast is so bad" threads in HN just get tiring, and amount to little more than noise.


Okay, despite the fact that I keep being downvoted for having brought this up, I'll answer anyway and probably get downvoted again. Here's the thing. As someone who knows the "original" Pollen, and knows that it is a system designed for making online publications look good, my immediate thought was: "Oh, is this a CSS library from the guy who created Pollen? That's cool." Maybe it was designed to work in concert with Pollen! Maybe it's just inspired by Pollen! Or...oh, maybe it has nothing to do with Pollen. Huh.

If the title was "Pollen - a library for controlling air quality sensors," I wouldn't have thought that, because those two fields aren't remotely connected. But this Pollen and the original Pollen are in adjacent problem spaces, and that makes the identical naming relevant.

I'm sorry you think that's "little more than noise." I just don't agree. As I mentioned elsewhere and I guess shouldn't have, normally I don't bring this sort of thing up, but I think in this case the possibility for confusion isn't in the "so wacky ha ha out of the blue gosh nobody would ever mix up the two" camp that apparently everyone else does.




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