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Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by pikachuaintcool on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:32PM (#14613398)
Pretty bad name, I thought it was a typo for Lua.
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by wdanilo on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:47PM (#14613971)
We use the name for a long time now and we love it, however I agree it could be confusing. We failed, however, to find a better one.

I've got a crazy idea here! I know that HN has some magical powers, so if you have any idea of a better name for a dual-representation, functional, visual language, we'd be more than happy to talk about it and change it before the release (after the release it would be too late)! :)

Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by vanderZwan on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:57PM (#14614848)
Janus/Ianus? Two headed god of.. You know what, I'll just link the wiki page:

> In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (; Latin: Iānus, pronounced [ˈjaː.nus]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus

Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by wdanilo on Thursday June 22, 2017 @05:40PM (#14615567)
Thank you for this name! I really like the connection, it is in fact super cool. The only thing that puts me off when thinking about this name is that "Janus" is a very similar name to "Janusz", which is in polish a name used very often to describe in jokes greedy and unfair entrepreneur :D
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by vanderZwan on Thursday June 22, 2017 @08:20PM (#14616292)
There are more ways to spell the name, maybe one of them doesn't trigger that association?
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by pikachuaintcool on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:24PM (#14615043)
I mean, I don't care if you keep it as Luna. Just saying you're gonna have problems if you keep that name
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by wdanilo on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:37PM (#14615151)
I completely understand that, but we care about it very much and don't want to have problems with it. Because of that I asked about help with the naming :)
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by etiene on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:04AM (#14617860)
I'm a huge Lua fan and I got excited for a moment thinking it had any connection to it, then I was disappointed that it didn't, even if Luna does seem like a great piece of tech!

Here goes some suggestions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaci

Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by edko on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:31PM (#14613852)
I agree. Lua is moon in Portuguese; Luna is moon in Spanish and Italian.
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by jerry40 on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:10AM (#14618086)
Luna is moon in Russian as well (stress is on the second syllable though)