Ask HN: What would you call a package whose purpose is to import data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326979
by ctc24 • 7 months ago
7 12 7 months ago

Let's assume you're writing Go, Python, or any other language in which `import` is a reserved keyword. Let's assume also that you're writing a new package, whose purpose is to "import" data.

What do you name this package?

Our team went through this exercise semi-recently, and we're curious about how everyone else would think about it. Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of options we considered: imports, ingest, dataimport, ímport, impørt.

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