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Introducing Our New Name

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212 points luafox | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.31s | source
1. excalibur ◴[] No.41832842[source]
Yeah, this name sucks. It will endlessly be misread as "Luna-ti" and assigned astrological connotations, it sounds like a pharmaceutical, and it tells you nothing about the platform.
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2. andai ◴[] No.41833009[source]
Lua does mean Luna, just in a slightly different language.
3. smohare ◴[] No.41833157[source]
Despite my familiarity with Lua, my mind originally went to the Yuan-ti.
4. itronitron ◴[] No.41833541[source]
Luanti is easy to pronounce and distinct, but it's also vague enough that someone making a game using the Luanti platform will want to name their game something else.