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by calebkaiser 1301 days ago
Kangas creator/maintainer (or, one of) here:

We named it Kangas because our research team's mascot is the kangaroo, and pandas is the name of a popular related library. Since releasing it last week, I've had multiple people ask me if it the name was Finnish--really makes me wish I'd done it intentionally :)