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What's the origin of the name? 'Lunatic' is an antiquated and ableist term for the mentally ill, so probably not the best name for your product/company.
by wcerfgba 6y ago
What's the origin of the name? 'Lunatic' is an antiquated and ableist term for the mentally ill, so probably not the best name for your product/company.
- bkolobara 6y agoI was originally working on a programming language that compiled to Lua, so I named it Lunatic. Later I decided to write a runtime for the language and called it Lunatic VM. We ended up with an actor-based language-agnostic runtime, but the original name was kept though it does not have any connections to Lua anymore.
- fulafel 6y agoThe mentally ill meaning is not much used anymore. The #2 meaning at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lunatic https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lunatic is the default unless context implies otherwise.