Was the rebrand really just for simplicity and clarity? It seems like a lot of work to change the name when it was already a pretty established toolchain, not just for your team, but, and this is more important, for your community.

I actually think EdgeDB was a far better name. It actually meant something; yes, it wasn't a pure graph database, but it did work with the general concept of graphs and edges. Gel means nothing. Even the domain name: geldata.com makes no sense. You're not selling or creating data, it's a database system/layer.

I've been a true evangelist for EdgeDB over the last two years, but this has really irked me - irrationally so, I'm aware(!), but I just can't see the benefits outweighing the drawbacks here. It feels like it has to have been a result of some legal action or something.

And just as LLMs were starting to catch up with their knowledge cutoff to include EdgeDB too! Now it'll be another two years until they know what you're talking about again. I know, first world problems.

Is the query language name changing, by the way? Or is that still EdgeQL? Please let sanity prevail over at least one thing and don't call it "jel-q-ell"!