Announcing Mecca

[Ali Çehreli]

On 05/05/2018 04:09 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 10:43:53 UTC, Mengu wrote:
>> On Friday, 4 May 2018 at 05:23:51 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I am very happy to announce that Mecca version 0.0.1 (sorry, no more 
>>> zeros than that) is now officially available. You can get the source 
>>> code at https://github.com/weka-io/mecca. The API documentation is at 
>>> https://weka-io.github.com/mecca/docs.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> why the name mecca?
> 
> Liran said in his closing keynote that they use a lot of internal 
> codenames that rhyme with Weka.

Shachar further explained that they have internal tools and projects 
that all end with "eka" like teka. M was available, so they called it 
Meka, which sounded like an existing place so changed its name to Mecca.

Ali