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Anyone know why the link in the post Alan is replying to in that original thread redirects http://www.luna-lang.org to https://ensoanalytics.com/ ?

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If you look at the poster's profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wdanilo, you'll see they're the founder of Enso. Seems like they pivoted at some point. (I'm a fan of this move personally, as I loathe the usage of singular common words to name a product)

They pivoted from "Luna Lang" (two words) to "Enso" (one word).

I'm reasonably confident their original name is in the vein of https://www.rust-lang.org/, which no one refers to as Rust Lang :P

Whereas Enso is not a word to the best of my knowledge, or certainly not in common usage.

Enso is a Zen Buddhism term (symbol?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D

> Luna is now Enso. Following a couple of years of going by Luna, we were facing issues that were making it difficult for us, and people looking for Luna. Luna is a popular term, and in programming-language land, is also very close to the popular language Lua, an endless source of confusion.

https://medium.com/@enso_org/enso-dev-blog-19th-june-2020-33...

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