Should be named after another tree

[Pi-Cla]

This is a fork of elm and elm is a tree so this project should also be named after a tree

[aslilac]

silly suggestion: ente

• all of the letters of element that didn’t make it into elm, to reflect that it’s largely the patches that didn’t make it into elm
• named after the cools trees from lord of the rings (though with an extra e)

[bburdette]

Ok I'm totally fine with the name as is, and to change it would create a certain amount of confusion.

But if we're doing this tree thing I think it should be one of those clonal colony types of trees that spread via underground roots, resulting in big stands of genetically identical trees. The best known is the Aspen, but to me that has strong associations with the town of Aspen, full of rich society types. Turns out though, aspens are a variety of Poplar, which is probably a better name. Because we want this version of elm to be poplar, right? The puns write themselves.

[changlinli]

As @bburdette mentions, unfortunately changing the name at this junction would cause confusion both socially and technically in some automatic workflows :/.

Of course though if people would like to locally alias their command that's totally fine so I'll leave this open at least for a while longer both for other members of the org to chime in if they'd like and for people to contribute their own ideas of names because it's fun to see and could serve as inspiration for those aliases.

[Erudition]

The way I see it, Zokka is a fork of the elm compiler, not Elm the language. In many languages the compiler has a different name, such as GHC which is a compiler for Haskell. This makes even more sense when considering languages where having multiple alternative compilers is perfectly normal.