The first thing that came to mind when I entered the site was the resemblance of the classic Soviet iconography to their logo, sans the hammer and sickle, then I checked the repo, and coincidentally, they have a recent commit (`c6fac4d`) titled "kremlin -> karamel" [0] ([...] a tool for extracting low-level F programs to readable C code*)... Apparently, the commit is one big rename operation from Kremlin to Karamel, funny.
I'm curious why the resemblance and homage to the Soviet Union in the first place, but I find it sad that people feel the need to rebrand things like this, to avoid the mob. Just because I don't like communism, doesn't mean people can't have things named after one of recent history's most well-known superpowers, with admittedly cool style.
I'm guessing they came up with the wordplay before the invasion, and then regretted it because the reference suddenly stopped being purely historical.
And I get it, I've been phasing out this username, which I picked with bad timing, to avoid unintended connotations, even though I was simply thinking of Robotnik and not anything russian. I've got nothing to do with their language, so it just isn't worth it.
I, personally, am aware, but I'm not so sure everyone who will read my username knows that, and there's enough war-related shilling around (and suspicion thereof) that the pun simply isn't worth it.
Well tbf Kremlin (as typically used) isn’t just a USSR reference it’s a specific place in Moscow. Still used as a metonym for Russia’s government.
That said I do actually love that Soviet propaganda aesthetic. Can appreciate not wanting to be associated with the existing madman running Russia though.
"Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services" [0] comes to mind. Highly recommendable thread to read.
It's odd how this is deemed acceptable - Wikipedia explains that the joke is in reference to its "brutal" optimization, which I'm sure eastern Europeans find hilarious (they might, they're known for their grim sense of humour) - but no one would seriously consider naming, say, their fork of the GNU assembler "Hitler".
Stalin never earned the same perception as Hitler, probably because he won and Hitler didn't. History is written by the victors. There's a reason the cliche move in politics is to call your opponent "literally Hitler" and not "literally Stalin". That said, I doubt any tool named "Stalin" would gain any major traction. Adopting such a tool would be a huge liability for a company.
I always figured this would be the correct name for a tool designed to erase unwanted objects out of photos (whether using classic techniques or AI, whatever).
0: https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar/pull/2489