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thealistra
Name collision with emerge, the Gentoo package manager. If this is an early stage of the project, you may think about a more unique name.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage#emerge

dagenleg
Well, it's for web-developers. Probably very little overlap with Gentoo users amongst them.
microcolonel
I can tell you that there's a lot of overlap.
pbiggar
There may be a lot of web developers among gentoo users, but there are not a lot of gentoo users among web developers.
rounce
Why all the downvotes? Seems like a valid point.
brudgers
There's go.com, a game called 'Go'. Should Google change the name of its programming language? Probably not because there isn't any actual confusion. Not like between the synaptics package manager and the synaptiks touchpad utilities for Synaptics touchpads...and that's not that important because it causes confusion for a just handful of people and only for a brief period of time despite both being present on nearly every Linux system.
electic
What is the cost of this? What if the first image does not download from the web server in time? It seems like it will halt the page rendering until it gets the correct sequence.

Personally, it makes sense to have the page loading, even if it is out of order and not ideal. It indicates to the user something is happening and the user tends to be more patient.

ilyabirman
Good point. I was thinking about adding give-up time-outs, but never got to doing it.