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Out of curiosity, why do you name the library as lunatic? This is totally one of the FAQs! |
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I was originally working on a programming language that compiled to Lua, so I named it Lunatic. Later I decided to target my own runtime that I called LunaticVm. In the end I ended up with an actor based language agnostic runtime, but kept the original name. Even it does not have any connections to Lua anymore. |
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Would you consider changing the organization's name from |
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I believe the name was taken, otherwise I would have gone for the simpler version. |
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True, what about |
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How about LunaticMachine, LunaticRuntime or LunaticWasm? |
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LunaticRT or LunaticVM? |
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I have decided to settle on "lunatic-solutions" in the end and also acquired the domain http://lunatic.solutions/. |
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Looking good! |
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Lunatic [loo -n uh -tik] noun
You should be aware that anyone who struggles or has struggled with mental illness, along with disability advocates, |
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Hi @shawntax, thanks for sharing your concern. I didn't intend to offend anyone with the name, I simply picked it because it originated from the latin word for moon and sounded catchy. We are an inclusive community and welcome everyone; no matter their background or disabilities. I hope the name doesn't stop anyone from joining or using the project. |
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Hiya @bkolobara, thanks for responding. I fully believe you have no bad intentions. But regardless of your intent, the fact remains that "lunatic" is an I'm coming from an American, English-speaking perspective. The offensiveness of the word is mostly baked in to its older, out-of-style usage. But even its origin from the Latin luna meant "affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon". So there's really no way to separate the connotation of insanity. I know it can be difficult and frustrating to hear this, especially after already investing in a domain and all that. And I'm not a member of your community, so basically as an internet stranger my voice doesn't carry much weight. I'm here only because this repo came up on my GitHub activity feed and it just raised my eyebrow so much that I had to say something. EDIT: I've updated an instance of the word "offensive" to "ableist", and added a small qualification that not all mentally disabled people will find the term offensive (as TarrenHassman pointed out). But as Lydia X.Z Brown writes in the Glossary of Ableist Phrases:
If you stand by your code of conduct and truly care about building an inclusive community, then you would consider linguistic ableism as a valid concern here. |
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Hi. Mentally disabled person who was recently in rehab. Please stop. The
project name is fine
…On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 9:16 PM shawn ***@***.***> wrote:
Hiya @bkolobara <https://github.com/bkolobara>, thanks for responding. I
fully believe you have no bad intentions. But regardless of your intent,
the fact remains that "lunatic" is an offensive term, especially to those
who struggle with and care deeply about mental health and the stigma of
mental health issues in society.
I'm coming from an American, English-speaking perspective. The
offensiveness of the word is mostly baked in to its older, out-of-style
usage. But even its origin from the Latin *luna* meant "affected with
periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon"
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/lunatic>. So there's really no way to
separate the connotation of insanity.
I know it can be difficult and frustrating to hear this, especially after
already investing in a domain and all that. And I'm not a member of your
community, so basically as an internet stranger my voice doesn't carry much
weight. I'm here only because this repo came up on my GitHub activity feed
and it just raised my eyebrow so much that I had to say something.
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I was originally working on a programming language that compiled to Lua, so I named it Lunatic. Later I decided to target my own runtime that I called LunaticVm.
In the end I ended up with an actor based language agnostic runtime, but kept the original name. Even it does not have any connections to Lua anymore.