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Yeah, this name sucks. It will endlessly be misread as "Luna-ti" and assigned astrological connotations, it sounds like a pharmaceutical, and it tells you nothing about the platform.


Lua does mean Luna, just in a slightly different language.


Luanti is easy to pronounce and distinct, but it's also vague enough that someone making a game using the Luanti platform will want to name their game something else.


Despite my familiarity with Lua, my mind originally went to the Yuan-ti.




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