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I believe the've been looking for two-letter names that aren't already taken, and are easy to type. I think I heard that from one of the podcasts that Charlie Marsh was on.

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Source here for anyone interested[0]. From memory, Ruff was its own thing, (I think named after the bird?) since then they've tried to give projects short letter combinations for consistency and ease of typing (uv, ty, pyx)

[0] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/download/520/pyx-the-other-si...

Ruff wasn't named after the bird, we just think it's funny that Charlie didn't know it was a bird. He made up the word :)

I've always assumed it was something like:

ruff - "RUst Formatter".

ty - "TYpe checker"

uv - "Unified python packaging Versioner"? or "UniVersal python packaging"

Also note that R, U and T are one letter away to spell Rust.

Ah, thanks for demystifying!

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