Effective names in software

Here are some of my favorite names for software, in no particular order:

• cyclic, the Solaris timer subsystem

• chrono, the Rust date and time handling crate

• Grand Central Dispatch, the concurrent work abstraction in Darwin

Names can even be entirely made up, as long as it's clear what they do:

• Markdown, the human-friendly text formatting system for markup

• tibble, a more pleasant table data structure for R

Julia Evans made a list of Metaphors in man pages that offers some naming ideas.