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Free software has some glib naming conventions (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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@hailey@hails.org on Mastodon: "the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu".
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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of "new".

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