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Because the language has a rather unique selling point.

And its not unique to include the language name. Say, for which program is .el? And that extension is commonly included in projects. Not a jab at Emacs as its same with vim projects but they start with vim instead.

(I actually find it useful as its descriptive.)




I think if it’s compiled binary, for me, that naming is less useful.

In fact, my perception from just the naming is that it’s some sort of academic or personal project built in Rust (because the author probably was interested in dabbling with the language).

And with a personal project, I associate “this is something not ready for production”, even though it very well could be.


If the language has a unique selling point, I'm not sure many will know those advantages outside of the Rust community.

If the selling points were a smaller memory footprint or a more stable app, a name like TinyRemoteDesktop or StableRemoteDesktop seem more indicative of its advantages.




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