By: Julia on EPH

Re-posted from: https://ericphanson.com/blog/2025/counting-short-package-names/

Introduction

In my post yesterday Thoughts
on being a package registry maintainer, I discussed package
registration moderation, exercise of power, and some historical
moderation decisions. One piece of it was about Julia packages with
3-letter names, and in particular the question of how many such packages
there can be. I
wrotelightly edited here for clarity: