On: CIL: C Intermediate Language

[almost]

There are a finite number of names, and an even smaller number of good names. But apparently an infinite number of hacker news posters who comment on every new project to complain that the name has been used before for something else.

And even the fact that this is a fork of an earlier project and the name comes from that doesn't stop it!

(I'm aware I have chosen a very weird thing to be getting annoyed at over my breakfast crumpets this morning)

[Philpax → almost]

I would normally agree with you on this, but these projects are in the same realm (language compiler infrastructure), so it's a bit more unfortunate than in the usual case

[fuhsnn → almost]

People are more triggered by "this is improper in my culture" type of comments, those tend to actually derail the thread.