To be fair, all known implementations of Proton's execution are entirely dependent on protons.

Dependency hell

In fairness, the title probably matches. You go off and write a DirectX translation layer and make it work properly in an entirely different operating environment while matching DX quirks. Absurdly complex.

Well, the natural proton not only was first, but means first (from Greek πρῶτος)

So I think we can give it priority on that one :)

Incidentally, πρῶτον, too, is a word in Ancient Greek.

And here I was thinking it was about Proton, the Mail/Calendar/VPN/Cloud Storage/PM/etc.

Here's another pretty complex Proton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket)