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Please use a different name to not get mistaken for a beta version of SymPy #3

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jondo opened this issue Feb 13, 2022 · 1 comment
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jondo commented Feb 13, 2022

Unfortunately, web searches for "sympy beta" mostly give results of beta versions of SymPy itself.

For a better name, I suggest to either move from gamma to delta, or even better to call it "Sympy Iota", in reference to the name "Pyodide".

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Some background: https://groups.google.com/g/sympy/c/fksZ9IaGGLM/m/bdWM38OnBwAJ

Originally when SymPy Gamma was released, its advertisement was too ambitious (SymPy version of Wolfram|Alpha) and leaded to many criticisms. I must admit that Wolfram|Alpha is a respectful model, and SymPy Gamma/Beta are too far away from it. However, as I started to improve both UI and logic, at least it's a tiny bit closer to (Wolfram|)Alpha, so I decided to choose Beta as it's the only Greek letter from Gamma towards Alpha. I considered Iota before, but gave up as in my home country many people only know common letters (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, pi, lambda ...).

For SEO, I don't treat it an urgent thing now, because without knowing this project nobody will search "SymPy Beta" to find an FOSS alternative to Wolfram|Alpha. SymPy Beta doesn't currently has many users, and I just want to improve it before advertising it publicly (though I did advertise it in Naive UI, Pyodide and SymPy community as they won't criticize this project not as mature as Wolfram|Alpha).

However, in long term perspective, if this project gets powerful, a rename is what I want. With Pyodide (and without being a SymPy official project), it isn't necessarily constrained to SymPy, but can also take advantage of other python libraries.

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@jondo jondo changed the title Please use a different name Please use a different name to not get mistaken for a beta version of SymPy Feb 13, 2022
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