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Comment by midoridensha | Hacker News Reader

"OpenTofu" is cute, but tofu has nothing to do with terraforming.

How about "Genesis" or "Reliant" or "Marcus" or "Kruge"?

As a heavy terraform user who can't wait to migrate away from Hashicorp, I don't care. It's just a name. After the first dozen uses you won't even notice, it'll be as natural as any other command.

It's a nice pun and at the same time is close to the original, which would help Terraform users recognize the brand. Your suggestions are nice, but less recognizable in that way.

Maybe we can take that pun to extreme though! If they ever have a designer that can come up with some crazy lore of terraforming with tofu that would be really really awesome. But I think they have more pressing matters right now.

I was just hoping more HN readers would get the reference... :-(

I got the reference but meh I think you needed a better delivery so it was more clearly a joke

Probably worth editing and explaining the references, I didn't get it at all. Not all of us hang around here 24/7/365/2023.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

I just read the plot and now I understand the reference.

So it was a clever comment but not particularly a joke (maybe a not so good one?)

> designer that can come up with some crazy lore of terraforming with tofu

I have a feeling that the designer may find it... challenging.

I can imagine a piece of tofu with robotic arms terraforming stuff. Pretty easy.

Or a globe with a tofu on top. Make the tofu evil/insane and create a story it wants to transform every plant in tofu.

Or tofu being portrayed as this blank slate of a food that becomes something more when adding things around it.

The current (yellow cube) logo is genius though! It's like they took the Terraform logo, which to me looks like a cube that has fallen apart, and put it back together into a cute little cube of tofu.

terraform has nothing to do with terraforming either

You "terraform" the cloud.

I’ve always thought terraform was kind of a perfect name, making large-scale changes to thousands of resources with a single command really does feel like terraforming.

It absolutely does, in a metaphoric way:

It's just like the Genesis torpedo. You simply fire this torpedo from your starship at a (hopefully lifeless) planet or moon, and the Genesis Effect will re-form all the matter on the world, creating a world full of life, just the way you want it. You don't have to do any hard work like earth-moving, planting trees, etc., because the Genesis device does it all for you, quickly and automatically, according to your design.

terraform is the same: you just write a text file describing how you want a bunch of resources provisioned, run `terraform`, and it does all the work of provisioning those resources for you, quickly and automatically, according to your design. Honestly, I think it's a brilliant name.

Maybe... Garden of Eden Creation Kit?

I love a good Fallout 2 reference.

it does.

tofu is short for torafurm.

it's done deal, mate. better spend your time on something else.

He tasks me... He tasks me and I shall have him!

More aspirational… call it Mars

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