Mickey Mouse is just liberated from its Disney Copyright Protection Act after 96 years. So I had a go at AI Image Generator (free, no sign-up, unlimited) with this prompt: “prompt=2D cartoon Disney character digital art of scala programming language mascot with red spiral stairs based on mickey mouse”
and got this
I wonder when clippy’s copyright is liberated… We’ll have to wait a while for sure.
We might want to differentiate between the mascot and the logo. As said, Haskell has a logo but no mascot ; Java has Duke but still has a cup of coffee as a logo ; there might be several other instances.
Note that this version of Mickey Mouse is not in the public domain, only the steamboat willie one is
I guess the AI did not know about that…
When Caprese is ready as in {cap} I think the mascot must have a hat.
It’s ^{cap} now, so I guess we have no choice but:
[Insert tip fedora meme here]
Scala Center could give this job to a real non-AI artist:
Make a cute super-hero mouse mascot with a hat with a monospaced ^{cap} on it using the firacode font. Should use the scala color theme with the scala logo on its breast. Should follow good logo art principles and available in both color and BW etc etc.
Symbolic interpretation: our super-hero mascot has all the capabilities of the universe
Already claimed by the post office.
Someday, Scala’s trademark sluggish compilation may improve.
Edit: it could upgrade to a snail on roller skates.
The best part is the cat face!
Oh, had another idea. We could call it the Scala Serpent. That would give it alliteration and while still maintaining the pretty much all of the properties of the dragon I mentioned before.
Scala Snail is an alliteration too. Plus, it’s cuter. Edit : and to separate it from the logo, we could represent it as climbing the stairs.
I mean a snail’s shell is already a spiral !
(technically the Scala logo is an helix, but shush)
Thinking more on it, it’s not necessarily the most strategical idea to take the animal associated with slowness to represent a language that has a reputation of slow compile times ^^’
