I’ve read the title as “Google to reimplement curl in libcurl”. I only noticed the libcrul after reading the article so they certainly have a point that’s it’s very confusing.
I'd say the name is definitely too close for comfort.
'libcrul'.
Will the suggestion be a) you switched the 'r' and 'u' and get libcurl, or b) you missed an 'r' and get 'libcrurl'.
I know that naming stuff is hard and I'm definitely pretty bad at it but when you're working at Google or some other tech giant I think you should have the elegance of being a bit more thoughtful with that stuff. I predict that it's going to make it significantly more painful to... google for libcurl in the future.
I invite the libcurl folks to name their next project "groogle".