• bradboimler@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    It’s Lua, not LUA. It’s Portuguese for moon, not an initialism.

    I wonder why people do this. Happens a lot with Java too.

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      27 days ago

      I’ve not seen it so much with Java, but for Lua, it’s not an English word, and most things in software are either English words or acronyms/initialisms, so it’s usually a safe heuristic to assume anything that isn’t an English word should be capitalised.