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layout: news
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author: Torsten
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It has been a bit of a journey, but now we have arrived: Salama is officially named.
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### Salama
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Salama is a **real word**, not made up or an acronym (plus).
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It is a word of my **home-country** Finland, a finnish word (double plus)
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Salama means **lightning** (or flash), and that is fast (double double plus) and bright.
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As some may have noticed in most places my nick is **dancinglightning**. Nice :-)
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Also **my wife** suggested it, so it always reminds me of her.
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#### Journey
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I started with crystal, which i liked. It speaks of clarity. It is related to ruby. All was good.
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But I was not the first to have this thought: The name is taken, as i found out by
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chance. Ary Borenszweig started the [project](http://crystal-lang.org/) already two
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years ago and they not only have a working system, but even compile themselves.
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Alas, Ary started out with the idea of ruby on rockets (ie fast), but when the
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dynamic aspects came (as they have for me a month ago), he went for speed, to be
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precise for a static system, not for ruby.
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So his crystal is now it's own language with ruby-ish style, but not semantics.
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That is why i had not found it. But when i did we talked, all was friendly, and we
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agreed i would look for a new name.
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And so i did and many were taken. Kide (crystal in finish) was a step on the way,
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as was ruby in ruby. And many candidates were explored and discarded, like broom
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(basic ruby object oriented machine), or som (simple object machine), even ahimsa.
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#### Official
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But then i found it, or rather we did, as it was a suggestion from my wife: Salama.
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After i found the name i made sure to claim it: I published first versions of gems
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for salama and sub-modules. They don't work off course, but at least the name is
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taken in rubygems too. Off course the github name is too.
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So now i can get on with things at lightning speed :-)
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