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You probably should have searched for the name Lumen before you chose it for your project. Lumen is a framework for PHP:

https://lumen.laravel.com/

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This Lumen predates that Lumen by a few years.

We did a search when we picked the name, and found https://github.com/xopxe/Lumen. I emailed Jorge to ask if he was ok with us using the name for a Lisp-to-Lua project and he sent a delightful reply that began "It's impossible to avoid conflicts with such a cool name", and pointed out that there were other projects called lumen that he discovered when he published on Github. Who knows how far back the lumens go.

By now finding great names that aren't in use yet (let alone not in use in a similar context) is almost impossible. Fast fwd 100 years from now & we'll have way more artifacts with names. I think we'll be fine.

Reminds me a bit of Joe Armstrong's StrangeLoop talk from 2014: The Mess We're In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

As a lighting professional, both of you go ruin the search results for some other word! Lumen is the SI unit measuring visible light emission. :P

But then we wouldn't get to call the debugger Numen: https://github.com/gruseom/numen

Also https://github.com/sctb/lumen/pull/169

There was also something called Pneumen for a while.

Lemun seemed like a nice name for the nightly / unstable version of Lumen, once things advance that far.

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