[chandlerc1024]

(Carbon lead here)

We tried other names, but we found collisions with essentially all of them. =/ We ended up picking a "least bad", and actually talked to a couple of folks familiar with the old usage to see if it was a worse collision than we realized. They weren't delighted but generally shrugged. So here we are. =/

It's definitely not perfect, but I think it's much more searchable than "C" or some other choices. Ultimately, I think its at least not bad enough to matter compared to the actual project.

[phaedryx]

Why not create a word/name? e.g. Clojure

[chandlerc1024]

We played with some, but none stuck.

A big goal was being short and easily pronounced, including by non-native English speakers, in a recognizable way from reading the text. That made the overwhelming majority of "fun" spellings not work well.

On one hand, I feel like we're just not as good at naming as Rust and Zig. Both of those names are :chefskiss:

On the other hand, Carbon does have a bunch of awesome puns waiting for us... So we've got that going for us. =D

[theanonymousone]

Cloce