other languages named GlowScript

[roberto...@gmail.com]

While Googling "GlowScript", I stumbled upon two other languages/projects named GlowScript:

https://ledmaker.org/post/script/

"Glowscript is a simple yet powerful asynchronous multithreaded procedural programming language for creating multilayered (superimposed) animations on smart LED strips, such as DotStars and NeoPixels."

https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-tools/3071050-glowscript-a-new-way-to-datapack

https://www.glowscript.net/

"GlowScript is a Lua, Python, and C++ inspired programming language designed to make Minecraft datapacks. Our main goal is to offer a more "programmatic" feel to Minecraft Datapack development."

While these other projects are relatively new and 

their userbases are likely not as large as ours,

I wonder if there is potential problem with their choices of name.

rob salgado

[Bruce Sherwood]

Interesting, Rob. Those of us responsible for glowscript.org have decided to move to saying "Web VPython" instead of "GlowScript VPython", to make clearer the difference between running at glowscript.org and running with installed Python. The emphasis should be on "VPython", not on "GlowScript".

Some history (for a more extensive treatment, see https://brucesherwood.net/?p=136): The glowscript.org project started in 2011 by David Scherer, the original creator of VPython, and me. Scherer worked on the project for only a couple of months but in that time built the central architecture of glowscript.org. David, Ruth Chabay, and I wrestled with picking a good name for the project. David liked "GlowScript" ("Graphic Library on Web"). Neither Ruth nor I liked it but couldn't come up with anything better.

Until late 2014, programs had to be written in JavaScript. Now of course it is quite rare for people to write their programs in JavaScript, and the name "Web VPython" is much more descriptive. We also think that the main site should (again) be vpython.org, with a prominent button to go to glowscript.org.

Bruce

[Bruce Sherwood]

As part of this shift, notice that at glowscript.org the title at the top of the page is "Web VPython", and you can also get to glowscript.org with "webvpython.org".

Bruce