A little idea on naming about raptorjit

[eugeneia]

Huh? I am slower apparently, enlighten me!

[iehrlich]

@eugeneia, well, one of the quotes from README points at the historical post in LuaJIT mailing list.
Reading it thoroughly, either it's just a happy coincidence, or otherwise a very smart move :)

[lukego]

Good detective work :).

Yes it's a reference to that mail. I think that Mike did an excellent job there of "cutting the cord" by telling the community that we need to learn to fend for ourselves and that we should not expect his approval for the new technical ideas that we try out.

So the project is named RaptorJIT in the spirit of embracing this role of mysterious sharp-clawed interdimensional beasties who will take the project in new directions that seem atrocious and hazardous to LuaJIT purists.

Really though the model that I have in mind is the SBCL fork from CMCUL. I feel that this fork benefited both projects. SBCL started off by removing a lot of features that were good but hard to maintain, which reduced the feature set but allowed them to onboard more maintainers. More maintainers lead to more development and good new features over time. The projects both continue to co-exist in a symbiotic way, as far as I know, with their own maintainer communities who actively port fixes and improvements between them where applicable.

[lukego]

immediately demand some component or tool named "Claw"

I have actually written a program called Claw. This should be easy to add as a build dependency using nix. The only question is how exactly we can apply an Erlang-IR to Common Lisp transpiler to RaptorJIT......