Hydrogen is a fantastically well-executed and useful piece of software. (As is Jupyter.) I’ve used it in my own programming, and also in teaching introductory software development, where it’s a helpful transition from Jupyter notebooks (which are used in the early part of the course, for problem sets / reading journals) to text files and code editors (which are introduced later, and used for team projects, and for projects that use Flask or PyGame).
But also — relevant to this sub-thread — “Hydrogen” (it relates “Jupyter” to “Atom”) has to be one of the best project names ever. It’s right up there with “Pyramid Scheme”[3].
[2] https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
[3] http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/11/28/write-your-next-ethere...
The name is also in homage to Galileo's notebooks recording the discovery of the moons of Jupiter (the four we now call the 'Galilean moons'), and also to a bar called Jupiter in Berkeley, which the core team has visited quite often. The last one's more like a funny coincidence, though.
Congrats BTW.
That said, I've always rhymed it with lumpy, haha
Although it's gone far beyond just Julia and Python now.
Edit: Ahurmazda is right.
...the core programming languages supported by Jupyter are Julia, Python and R. While the name Jupyter is not a direct acronym for these languages, it nods its head in those directions. In particular, the "y" in the middle of Jupyter was chosen to honor our Python heritage.
https://github.com/jupyter/design/wiki/Jupyter-Logo