For more information about the name, the README elaborates:

> Rome gets its name from proverbs such as "All Roads Lead to Rome", "Rome wasn't built in a day" and "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". This refers to the expansive scope and the desire for conformity across the project. It started as a joke at the office.

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome#history

Cue the jokes.

And when you do something with your project they didn't anticipate their response would be: 'When in Rome...'.

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