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As an outsider to the fascinating world of terminal emulators... can you explain why this might be? Rather, what about `libghostty` would be off-putting vs `libtermengine`?

Just that it's a specific "product"-y sounding name? Would you also be concerned about "libwayland" vs "libcompositor"? Genuinely curious: this seems like an insightful question, I just don't follow the reasoning.

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Disclaimer: I am not the maintainer of anything terminal related, it's just an intuition.

Let's say I'm the creator of ghostty "competition".

The fact that is has the same name, could feel if I change that:

- Maybe my users start thinking why don't I use ghostty instead - Will the maintainers of libghostty chose more oriented to ghostty than for my terminal?

It's a half assed analogy, but think if Google's V8 would be called ChromeEngine instead of V8.

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