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Agree, and there are other projects with fun names like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Schem

• pelagicAustral 2y ago
  "Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services" [0] comes to mind. Highly recommendable thread to read. 0: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/thread.html#94769 https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/...
• wk_end 2y ago
  It's odd how this is deemed acceptable - Wikipedia explains that the joke is in reference to its "brutal" optimization, which I'm sure eastern Europeans find hilarious (they might, they're known for their grim sense of humour) - but no one would seriously consider naming, say, their fork of the GNU assembler "Hitler".
  • seanw444 2y ago
    Stalin never earned the same perception as Hitler, probably because he won and Hitler didn't. History is written by the victors. There's a reason the cliche move in politics is to call your opponent "literally Hitler" and not "literally Stalin". That said, I doubt any tool named "Stalin" would gain any major traction. Adopting such a tool would be a huge liability for a company.
    • saurik 2y ago
      I always figured this would be the correct name for a tool designed to erase unwanted objects out of photos (whether using classic techniques or AI, whatever).