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a1o 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

What does the ng at the end means? I have seen a few products/projects that added it and no explanation of the meaning.

sphars 39 days ago | [–]

I came in and thought it had something to do with Angular since `ng` is a popular pre/post-fix for Angular libraries.

jdhdbdbd 39 days ago | | [–]

It means new generation. Using ng suffix was the thing to do in the 2000s just like calling something beta or 2.0 in the years following

zufallsheld 39 days ago | | [–]

Probably next generation.

egil 39 days ago | [–]

Next generation I guess.

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