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		seanhunter on Dec 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Design Token-Based UI Architecture Why not call them constants then? Tokens is a really terrible name given the strong expectation that anyone with a computer science background has around the meaning of "token".

rendaw on Dec 18, 2024 [–]

Yeah... auth tokens, resource tokens, rate limiting tokens, monetary tokens, LLM tokens, parser tokens, etc... you might as well name it "thing". It's about as bad as "node".

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