Reminds me of the "Fearless Concurrency" blog post by Aaron Turon in 2015 (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency/).

Quote:

The Rust project was initiated to solve two thorny problems:

- How do you do safe systems programming?

- How do you make concurrency painless?

Initially these problems seemed orthogonal, but to our amazement, the solution turned out to be identical: the same tools that make Rust safe also help you tackle concurrency head-on.

That was an eye-opener at the time, at least for me. Maybe Fearless SIMD borrows it's name from that sentiment.

Edit: the original announcement says this is the inspiration (https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/simd/2018/10/19/fearless-si...)

rust has been around for a while and has collected a large number of crates (many of them abandoned). So new crates need to adopt new and clever names

Wuthering SIMD