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I thought “what a weird name”, then silently pronounced it and my Polish ear heard “drzewko”, meaning “little tree”. What a fitting name. :)

• djedr 4y ago
  :) For a long time I couldn't find the right name that would express the generic nature of it. An earlier prototype was called TAO, as an acronym for Tree Annotation Operator (it had an extra feature called operators), and as a reference to the ancient Chinese concept, in essence nameless and by design hard to pin down -- this seemed to fit perfectly. However there is about 2^42 cowznofski potrzebie things called TAO (kind of ironic, as the original idea was that the Tao would be distinct from the countless named things), so it turned out to be a bad name after all. So I decided to find a more unique one and here we are. The amount of time spent thinking about this and the lengths I went to are better left untold. In other words, naming is hard.