Comment by cotera-grant

I was involved with the naming. We were debating between a couple of choices that had `ast` in them

We made a word list with

   cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep 'ast'

looking back through our slacks, the other top contenders were

1. Astronaut 2. Wrastle 3. Iconoclast 4. asteroid 5. disaster 6. plastic

We settled on NASTY because it was kinda funny. We were debating if it was too gross, but we think it might have positive signalling to other engineers because the name "NASTY" probably didn't come from a Fortune 50 enterprise tech stack.

After a week or so we stopped noticing what a weird name it was, and it only comes up when we tell someone new about it