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@linear@nya.social tbh what's infuriating about names is that even when as a programmer you understand the peculiarities of them as they relate to your specific application, you end up needing to bring dumb workarounds just because others have dumb misconceptions about them. E.g. when building a system that dealt with ID documents, we ended up needing to accept and return names in a very confused format with first and last names as separate fields and stuff, while most documents don't really differentiate them strongly - at least in ICAO compliant documents there's just a Name field, which might have a separator marking that it has more than one part, but it also might not - mononyms are common in some parts of the world.

But trying to convince others of that is hard, and it made more business sense to just have two fields, even though it's wrong.