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Looks like a great library, though the name is going to cause some people to think it’s related to pixi.js

That's unfortunate. I did not know about pixi.js when we picked the name. It feels like all of the cool names are taken! When we were thinking of a name we just looked around the Nim community for name collisions.

So, I've been thinking about making a library like yours, and as with most things I think about nothing came of it. However, I did have a name picked out: "Graffiti".

I think it's kinda cool and relevant, and a quick search didn't reveal any other library with the same name. If you're up for rebranding, feel free to use it :)

Is pixi.js pretty big? I haven't heard of it before tonight, and I thought I'd had exposure to most of the bigger JS frameworks via HN (I'm not a JS guy, more Python).

Yup, Pixi is the most popular javascript 2D game engine/renderer, with over 34k stars on github. It’s used all over the place.

As good as pixijs is, I wouldn't call it a gaming engine. Unless things have evolved in that direction. I haven't used it in 3 years or so

Well it’s more than just a renderer, since it also handles interaction… so I wouldn’t say it’s wrong to call it an engine, but you can just call it a framework if you want.

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