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I’m not saying that you can’t use another project’s name, but there already exists an actor framework named Ractor, but this one written in Ruby.

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Ractor.html

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I was about to mention this, Ractor is already a name used to describe the Ruby Actor class. But I guess this is only known within the Ruby Community? It would’ve taken one search to find out about this. Either way, since both names are bounded to their languages, the context should make it clear what is referred to. And to be fair, the name Ractor makes sense for both languages.

Honest truth? I didn't Google it first lol. I just checked if there was a crate with the same name and carried on. I only found out about the Ruby ones after I posted on Reddit for the first time. By then it was too late since I had already reserved the crate name and it was being downloaded

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