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And the JS promise library in turn collided with the name of Q, the array-processing language, which itself collided with the name of another programming language named Q (http://q-lang.sourceforge.net). If you're naming a tech-related thing after about 1980, the single-letter names are all taken...

Haha, well fair enough - even more reason to have checked I suppose. Maybe textQ would be more appropriate given this project's use case?

Funny enough, another commenter mentioned a similar project in Go called "TextQL."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7290739

https://github.com/dinedal/textql

This is why I should not be allowed to name things, clearly.

Nah, I don't see a problem with name collisions in small or relatively unrelated projects like this.

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