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by djowel64 2534 days ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. It seems I have to change the name. Bummer :-) Anyway, I didn't know. Thanks for pointing it out.
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If you're willing to share, I'm curious how you came up with the name, especially with it being literally one character (a space) different from such an established project from two decades ago.

And kudos to you being willing to change it now that you know. It probably only really affects old OS and embedded nerds like me, and as an amateur musician I do find your project interesting, but I have to admit I got my hopes up that QNX Photon had finally been open sourced, or at least brought up to modern standards with a new release.

All good names are taken
Just a stupid mistake, really. I know QNX, but I haven't used it and I didn't know the QNX Photon name. You guys are right. I should've done a 3 minute Google. My bad.
I now changed the name to Elemental C++ GUI library. Again, sorry for the stupid mistake and the confusion it caused.