dud: A dub replacement

[mipri]

On Monday, 11 November 2019 at 13:44:28 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
> So I started to write dud [1]. I kept some boring/nice parts 
> from dub, but most
> code so far is a complete rewrite.

Someone's eventually going to say this, and they probably really
won't want to, so I'll spare them: this is a horrible name. Is it
even deliberate? Is it only accidentally a meaningful English
word?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dud#Noun

(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does 
not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or 
explosive projectile.
(informal) A failure of any kind.
(informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.

Maybe this is in the tradition of tool names that have bad
connotations but are actually intended to be meaningless, like
Fedora's dnf (Did Not Finish). Or even horrible, disgusting
connotations, with the hope that this will serve as an
attention-getter followed by the reader being unwilling to concede
that emotions can interfere in technical decisions.
( 
https://duckduckgo.com/the%20open-source,%20cloud%20native%20SQL%20database )