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Lwan... that's the best name they could come up with?

Author here. It's a pun on another similarly-named web server. It's a terrible name, and I should have searched the web before, but it's too late now.

what about the l a m e thing ?

This whole project started as a joke, and I still see it as such.

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And the praise for the code quality makes the joke even funnier.

My favorite kinds of projects are ones that end in a (relatively short) punchline, but required tons of time investment.

Similarly Flask was also a joke at first. And now a pillar.

I'm in the same boat here. Naming is _hard_! I'm thinking of changing the name to binarytask instead, what are the drawbacks of a name change?

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