Does anybody really know how to pronounce the popular web-server software "XAMPP" because the internet seems more confused than I am.

I pronounce the word as Samp.

-- I found a video pronouncing it as Shamp:
https://youtu.be/h6DEDm7C37A

-- Found another video pronouncing it as Zamp:
https://youtu.be/S95w1uIeMBU

-- Found yet another video pronouncing it as X-amp:
https://youtu.be/h5LsSE_MFi8

Like what exactly is the real pronunciation?

xampp

i thought it was a play on "champ", so shamp (we mostly use the x with that sound in portuguese)

There is no real or correct pronunciation. How would you even define it?
The closest that you can get to is using the pronunciation that most of the others use.

X a m p p

Abbreviations are not words.

Nginx

@iiii you probably mean acronym but you're wrong either way

@lorentz /nd͡ʒɪŋks/

@electrineer /nji:ŋks/ (emphasis on /nj/ but I don't know how you added that)

Responding to the original question, I'm now convinced that it's a spanish word pronounced exactly like hump.

@electrineer why wrong? Acronyms do not conform to regular word rules

@lorentz wait, is GIF actually /jif/ instead of /gif/ or /ˈdʒif/

@lorentz you mean hamp :)

I call it, "no not that one, the other one...first ones not working...dunno why"

git, gif, jira, azure, …
Pronounce it however you like, I don‘t care.
But I dare you to pronounce feature as "future"! 🤬

@Lensflare some pronounce it as feaTchure 🙃

X - X / cross-platform
A - Apache
M - MySQL
P - Perl
P - PHP

So pronunciation would be each letter for its own.

Though the acronym is completely retarded and bogus.

Apache is dead. Perl is dead. MySQL is since Oracle imho a buggy piece of shit.

How about not using an acronym that basically says: You have no idea what you're doing, but it's evident it's wrong?

:-)

The past is gone. Let it die.

I just stick to "the php thingy you used to need for windows but not anymore thanks to docker" (or "tptyutnfwbnattd" for short) because it doesn't come with Xdebug/MongoDB and you need an extra script to alias multiple php-versions in Windows. It was really useful but has outlived its purpose imo.

btw, why does it come with Perl? I genuinely don't know what Perl was used for in web development back in the days..

Just like SQL two pronounciations are okay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAMPP says

XAMPP (/ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/)

So 'Zamp' or 'X-amp'

But unfortunately your 'Samp' is not okay ;)