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Wasn't gobby (the software project) originally named as a play on another collaborative editor named Lobby? That's what my memory is telling me.
by pc2g4d 11y ago
Wasn't gobby (the software project) originally named as a play on another collaborative editor named Lobby? That's what my memory is telling me.
- ben0x539 11y agoThe author's previous iteration of a library for multi-user text editing was called libobby, so that it'd be manually linked with -lobby. It might have been named some time after reading about libiberty and the like. Naturally, the Gtk GUI app had to have a G prepended to that, and the name was kept even though libobby was dropped in favor of a new, C-based library implementing a more complete algorithm with a slightly less gimmicky name. Maybe globby would have been a better call...