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My first thought was the Mac app that's been around for about 18 years now:

https://www.noodlesoft.com

And it had a release today.

https://www.noodlesoft.com/release_notes

Seems rough to jump on a name that's been in continuous use for that long. Would it be hard to add another word to make it easier to disambiguate?

My first thought when viewing your link was the name "Hazel" which has been around since the late 19th century or so. Couldn't the devs have chosen a different name or added another word?

Jokes aside, name collisions are bound to happen. These two apps seem entirely unrelated so I doubt anyone will accidentally install "Hazel, the Mac app for organizing folders and files" when they meant to use "Hazel, the live functional programming environment organized around type holes."

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