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I wonder if Eden is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_(2021_TV_series)

The project's name goes back to 2016. Granted, the README called the project a "filesystem" back then not an SCM, but... still, the name seems to predate the series by quite a bit.

I think it's probably from Facebook's culture of pretending it's a force for good when it's a mixed bag like every other Megacorp. Here's an example of what Zuck has said:

> I believe the most important thing we can do is work to bring people closer together. It's so important that we're changing Facebook's whole mission to take this on.

No wonder they have a major project named Yoga and now this...

Pretty sure it's called yoga because it is a flexible layout engine. A joke.

Here's another one: https://facebook.github.io/prophet/

It's used to predict things, but still strikes me as an odd name, just like Yoga.

The comment you're replying to is a perfectly good reason why it's named Yoga, not sure why it'd still seem "odd" with that context. Not particularly witty, but it definitely makes sense.

It was called css-layout but got renamed to Yoga because it implemented the “flexbox” layout and not all of CSS. Flex -> Yoga was indeed the joke/reference.

> it's a mixed bag like every other Megacorp

No, you can't simply dismiss the fundamental problems with Facebook/Meta with whataboutism. Google and Apple and Microsoft are standard mixed bags. Not Facebook.

Facebook is pure evil. It has queued up the complete obliteration of western democracy, which even Rupert Murdoch couldn't quite manage on his own. You can absolutely find non-directly-evil things to at Facebook/Meta, but it all supports the evil in the end.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...

Nah, it's older than 2021.

If Eden the TV series was based on a book, the book could be older, but it isn't.

It's also possible, but not likely, and not the case here, that a TV show could be a sensation long before the first episode comes out. I can't think of a time when this happened except for a prequel or sequel like Better Call Saul, where it was much awaited, but I'm sure there are instances of that occurring.

Edit: from another comment, there's this, which came out in 1997 but isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia article for the TV series so I'm not sure it's related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden:_It%27s_an_Endless_Worl... There is a Manga mentioned in the article for the TV series but it came out the same year as the TV show.

If anything, rather https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden:_It%27s_an_Endless_Worl...

https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Eden

Given that your link says the show came out in 2021, and the GitHub repo is at least 3 years old, probably not.

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