And the timing is probably good. I'm just about to leave my basement and head to LA for a few days to enjoy some actual sunshine. So I'll either turn to ashes or come back with a creative new name. ;-)
A small update on the naming rabbit hole. A few candidates I currently like:
emsiel — pronounced roughly like “M-C-L”. I like how it sounds; several people independently said it sounds vaguely biblical. :-) The downside is that it feels more like the name of a personal project than something inviting people to build a community around.
uhu — “under the hood”. This fits the teaching philosophy quite well: the language/compiler is deliberately small and, more importantly, doesn't try to hide what's going on under the hood.
ijc (“itchsy”) — short for “it’s just C”. It stays conceptually close to C, while using the syntax I wish C had. There's also an accidental “I just see” hiding in the spelling.
At the moment I'm leaning towards ijc, but I'm still not quite ready to rename everything. :-)
And the timing is probably good. I'm just about to leave my basement and head to LA for a few days to enjoy some actual sunshine. So I'll either turn to ashes or come back with a creative new name. ;-)