README suggestion

[pkieltyka]

Hi,

go-nats-streaming is the Go client for https://github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server ? is that correct? if so, please mention that in the README. The description nor README mention its a client for specifically the nats streaming server.

Side note: I wish you guys stuck with the project name of "stan". And renamed this repo to go-stan and nats-streaming-server to stan-server

[pkieltyka]

naming is very important in software. for some reason, NATS has many inconsistencies and breaks the rules and doesn't care to fix it for long periods of time.

[rybit]

Agreed 100%

Also things like:

• the stan.Subscription isn't a superset of the functionality of nats.Subscription
• the go-nats-streaming package relies on the go-nats package, not the normal client lib

make the transition between the two very obnoxious. It is the case that I have a lot of code that uses/manages/creates nats connections already, and I have to go and update all of those just to change imports.

[tylertreat]

@rybit

the go-nats-streaming package relies on the go-nats package, not the normal client lib

Not sure what you mean by that.

But yes, in general I agree it's confusing. NATS and NATS Streaming are entirely separate systems. We are going to work on clarifying that. Wally's recent ATO talk does a good job of presenting the difference I think: https://www.slideshare.net/wallyqs/nats-simple-secure-and-scalable-messaging-for-the-cloud-native-era-81170151

[rybit]

I didn't realize that github.com/nats-io/nats -> github.com/nats-io/go-nats happened. I still have all my imports for the first one.

I will update my imports properly. Thanks for the quick response!