Rename it to LangStream?

[rogeriochaves]

hey folks, I was considering the suggestion to change LiteChain name to LangStream, and subsequently change the main constructor from Chain to Stream. I think it's a big move to not be taken lightly so I wanted to hear y'alls opinion, but I think it's early enough on the project that a move like this is possible

Some pros for it:
It removes the confusion with blockchain stuff
Stream is a much more well established programming concept, and it's what the library actually do, 'chain' is a neologism in programming, getting popularized in LLMs world because of the chain-of-thought paper and langchain I feel
Make it more clear that you need to consider that everything is streamed when using the library

Some cons:
Breaking change of course
Loses the "lite" part of the name
Maybe make it less clear for people comming from LangChain to make the switch

thoughts?

[Dessix]

I vote to rename. Any association with the word "chain" is incidental, and is not present in multiple of LangChain's competitors, nor many of its own "Lang<*>" derivatives and extensions. "Lite" doesn't really describe the composability benefits of a monadic transform, even if it is technically light-weight at the implementation layer.

[odiseo0]

I also vote to rename it

[bitnom]

I vote to call it Languid (having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort)

[rogeriochaves]

according to comments here, on discord and some offline conversations I had, most people think this is a good idea, so thank for voting folks, the rename from LiteChain to LangStream is now done! 🎉

I've released it on v0.1.7

to migrate it should be easy enough, change the dependency and imports from litechain to langstream, and replace all matches of chain to stream and matches of Chain to Stream in your project

[davidljung]

Is this the same as https://langstream.ai/ or different?

[nevercast]

Is this the same as https://langstream.ai/ or different?

I do believe they are very different, this confused me as I found langstream.ai first .