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There is more than 9000 bird species and yet we have two web frameworks with the same name. Naming projects proves the-letter-agencies theory that people passwords are chose from very limited word space :) (https://falconframework.org) was there already.

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This is unfortunate, but at the time I only checked RubyGems.org and didn't think to check another language or package repository. So, I apologies, but there was no bad intentions, perhaps just a little bit of bad luck and ignorance.

That being said, it's actually named after the Peregrine Falcon, which is the fastest bird in the animal kingdom, and it was a friendly poke at Puma :)

There is even the older phalcon framework from 2012.

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