This is a pretty common theme in new languages. New projects in Ruby used to have a strong tendency of starting with 'r', and I'd be surprised if it didn't use to be the case in others as well.
They get over it, eventually.
They get over it, eventually.
Someone tell that to KDE!
A better example would be Elixir, where every package is Ex Something, e.g. ExUnit, Exometer, ExRated.