.. _background:

Background
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Why the pyage/age duality?
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The original project is named `age` and so is the binary of the corresponding
`Go implementation <https://github.com/FiloSottile/age>`_. I decided to call the
Python package and the Pip project `age` as well, because in these cases it is
obvious that it's Python. The binary however is called `pyage` in order to avoid
naming clashes. By the way, there is also `cage
<https://github.com/despair86/cage>`_ (a C implementation) and `rage
<https://github.com/str4d/rage>`_ (a Rust implementation). I decided to leave
*page* for the Perl implementation 😉...