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You probably should have searched for the name Lumen before you chose it for your project. Lumen is a framework for PHP: https://lumen.laravel.com/ https://lum

You probably should have searched for the name Lumen before you chose it for your project. Lumen is a framework for PHP: https://lumen.laravel.com/ https://lumen.laravel.com/

dang 8y ago
This Lumen predates that Lumen by a few years. We did a search when we picked the name, and found https://github.com/xopxe/Lumen https://github.com/xopxe/Lumen. I emailed Jorge to ask if he was ok with us using the name for a Lisp-to-Lua project and he sent a delightful reply that began "It's impossible to avoid conflicts with such a cool name", and pointed out that there were other projects called lumen that he discovered when he published on Github. Who knows how far back the lumens go.
- tosh 8y ago
  By now finding great names that aren't in use yet (let alone not in use in a similar context) is almost impossible. Fast fwd 100 years from now & we'll have way more artifacts with names. I think we'll be fine. Reminds me a bit of Joe Armstrong's StrangeLoop talk from 2014: The Mess We're In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
wlesieutre 8y ago
As a lighting professional, both of you go ruin the search results for some other word! Lumen is the SI unit measuring visible light emission. :P
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shawn 8y ago
But then we wouldn't get to call the debugger Numen: https://github.com/gruseom/numen https://github.com/gruseom/numen Also https://github.com/sctb/lumen/pull/169 https://github.com/sctb/lumen/pull/169
- dang 8y ago
  There was also something called Pneumen for a while.
  - shawn 8y ago
    Lemun seemed like a nice name for the nightly / unstable version of Lumen, once things advance that far.