I don't think it's particularly problematic, uv the concurrency library and uv the Python tool cover such non-overlapping domains that opportunities for confusion are minimal.

(The principle is recognized in trademark law -- some may remember Apple the record label and Apple the computer company. They eventually clashed, but I don't see either of the uv's encroaching on the other's territory.)

Sure, there are so few backend Node.js engineers. Let alone game engine developers and Blender users with their UV mapping tools. None of these people will ever encounter Python in their daily lives.

I'm not sure that's true. uvloop, built on libuv, is a pretty popular alternative event loop for async Python, much faster than the built-in. It certainly confused me at first to see a tool called "uv" that had nothing to do with that, because I'd been using libuv with Python for years before it came out.

> I don't think it's particularly problematic, uv the concurrency library and uv the Python tool cover such non-overlapping domains that opportunities for confusion are minimal.

Google returns mixed results. You may assert it's not problematic, but this is a source of noise that projects with distinct names don't have.

I think of uv in the gfx programming sense too.