Haha. I don't know what it is with open software projects and cute animals. There's also Golang's. I find them out of place (mixing cute things with technical matters), but I shouldn't complain.
> I find them out of place (mixing cute things with technical matters)
I love beautifully engineered software that's represented by a whimsical cartoon character or other non-vector-perfect hand-drawn art.
Once retired, the platypus was handed down to the Darwin people of course, to go with their Frankenstein NEXTSTEP/Mach/BSD kernel.
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