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gotrythis on April 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

Meteor is a horrible name for a programming language. Meteor's crash and burn! lol.

rbxbx on April 11, 2012 | [–]

Fairly certain that they're playing off of [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming))

nollidge on April 11, 2012 | [–]

Actually, they tend to burn up in the atmosphere :)

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