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This won't be hard to search for at all. https://lumen.laravel.com/

If we're going to limit project names in that way we might as well randomly choose letters

asdf-vm is the best-named project ever.

Haha! Oh dear.. I think adding "elixir" to any search is pretty much mandatory. Phoenix, Nerves, Scenic. All need some qualifiers. Ecto might stand on its own.

Not sure who came up with it first, but there's also Laravel Elixir and Laravel Mix which caused some confusion for me when I first heard about Elixir but didn't know it was in the Erlang ecosystem.

There is also a Python library called Elixir - naming is hard.

And a cryptocurrency, which makes for some fun questions sometimes on the elixir (lang) subreddit.

And in Poland there is interbank money transfer system called elixir so good luck finding job with elixir (lang) in description.

Better than Go!

Golang

Yes, I'm familiar with the hack that the community is expected to use every time they name the language in a searchable context. No better than prepending Elixir on a search if you ask me.

Yup. I've used Lumen a couple times over the past few years. Not sure why you would start a new project with that name, it's already well known and easily searchable.

Not sure why the OP's message was flagged, as it was a totally valid criticism...

But yeah, I just started a Lumen project last night for a quick API behind OAuth2. I sometimes have to append "php" or "laravel" to my queries, but that's to be expected considering I don't use Google.

I'm a big fan of Elixir and think Lumen's Elixir -> WebAssembly will be awesome, but I do wish they used another magic potion related name for it.

There have been many Lumens. Scott's and my hashmap-based Lisp was called that years earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962433). When I contacted the dev of a previous project to ask if he minded us using the name, he replied that there were so many that it didn't matter.

Lumens come and go.

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