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by JadoJodo 468 days ago
I love Go and I love Laravel, but I do find the naming an odd choice; it seems like borrowed clout. Especially so when Laravel's own name is a soft reference to the work of C.S. Lewis. Why not pick a unique, "Go-esque" name and still nod to Laravel in the title/description?
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Goravel doesn't roll off the tongue either. They should have went with Gravel.
I think if you pronounce it as "GORE-a-vel" it rolls off the tongue well enough. "Go-RA-vel" - which arguably better fits English orthography -> pronunciation conventions - sounds terrible.

But... Yeah: I prefer "Gravel", too. Is there another project out there with that name?

/English nerd

Slightly weird that the logo seems to have copy-pasted the "ravel" part of the Laravel logotype too (the hard-right-angle "r"), just changing the colour to blue.
A lot of Go libraries are ports of famous libraries from other languages, with "go" shoehorned somewhere into the name.