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"Pixi" != "Pixie"



But "Pixi" == "Pixie" when evaluated by humans


It's called PixiJS though.


The namespace is pixi which is what people will be searching.


Then they're searching wrong because that's not the name of the package. Plus, as I opened with, people should be including their language name as part of the search query by default regardless of the framework's name.

It seems absurd to me that developers are too lazy to add one extra keyword to their search to ensure they get specific results, yet are happy to moan about maintainers not putting enough effort in to avoid namespace collisions in a finite pool of usable project names (and particularly when the project names here are literally different). This strikes me as bad workmen blaming their tools; you have a bad search etiquette and are then passing the buck onto the maintainers to fix.

Sorry if that seams harsh but naming things is really hard but adding `nim` into your search query is really easy. To me it is pretty clear cut where this problem should be solved.


The levenshtein distance is still just 1 insertion so search results will likely be mixed.




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