On: Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development

[gorjusborg]

Prime doesn't necessarily need to denote anything specific, but often means 'different, but related'. It is common to use prime notation to reflect a derivative function in calculus, but like most things it depends on context.

[mhuffman → gorjusborg]

It was Lagrange's notation, I believe. As opposed to Leibniz's notation which is the dy/dx notation that is all the rage now.