[glenndebacker]

I’ve read the title as “Google to reimplement curl in libcurl”. I only noticed the libcrul after reading the article so they certainly have a point that’s it’s very confusing.

[kalleboo]

Googling for "libcrurl" currently gives you a "results for libcurl" as an autocorrect. If Google succeeds you'll get the opposite.

I'd say the name is definitely too close for comfort.

[Phemist]

It would be interesting to keep track of what the results will be in several search engines across time when you type:

'libcrul'.

Will the suggestion be a) you switched the 'r' and 'u' and get libcurl, or b) you missed an 'r' and get 'libcrurl'.

[porker]

I misread the new name as "libcruel".

[simias]

I had to re-read the title maybe 5 times before I got it, so I can definitely agree with your sentiment. The repetition of the "r" is definitely easy to miss.

I know that naming stuff is hard and I'm definitely pretty bad at it but when you're working at Google or some other tech giant I think you should have the elegance of being a bit more thoughtful with that stuff. I predict that it's going to make it significantly more painful to... google for libcurl in the future.

I invite the libcurl folks to name their next project "groogle".

[PopeDotNinja]

I misread it, too. Ir's actually L-i-b-c-r-u-r-l.

[huffmsa]

That's what I read too and felt my brain break momentarily.

[mxscho]

I only read the title, not the article, and I had to scroll back to the top after reading your comment. Got fooled as well.

[agumonkey]

while libgurl would have been so fit