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Kind of crazy the Google Cloud team is using gmail.js to build this extension. Gmail.js is a side project by Kartik Talwar who just graduated college and the co
by grinich 10y ago
Kind of crazy the Google Cloud team is using gmail.js to build this extension. Gmail.js is a side project by Kartik Talwar who just graduated college and the codebase isn't exactly active.
I guess even Google can't find a good way to extend Gmail with their own APIs...
- kartikt 10y agolol
- robbiemitchell 10y agoGoogle isn't a monolith. The author is on one team that wanted a way to encourage use of its services. They used an open source project to achieve it. Doesn't seem _that_ crazy to do rather than wait for some other team to build you an API.
- kartikt 10y agoThe original comment is meant as an observation rather than an attack. It's great to see the author of the post use gmail.js to quickly get the sentiment analysis working with 30 lines of code. The library was a fun side project and has been used by many companies (big and small) over the past few years. Its always nice to see someone make a cool extension on top of gmail. Here is another one that came out a while ago (uses gmail.js) and on the same theme as this original post: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/12/29/new_chrome_app_helps_women_stop_saying_just_and_sorry_in_emails.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/12/29/new_chrome_a...
- waprin 10y agoThanks for the library! It's super awesome, useful, and easy to use. And yes, it made writing this ridiculously simple, it's borderline embarrassing how little code I wrote, but that was also part of what made it neat to me. This was just a "let's spend a few hours playing with the Natural Language API" hack day type thing. Robbie's comment perfectly explains the context behind it. Google search pointed me to your library, which fit the need perfectly well, so that's what I used and I really appreciate that you wrote it and gave it permissive license!
- thesandlord 10y ago^ waprin is the author of the blog post
- ruleabidinguser 10y agoI think we all understand why this is happening, but its still funny.
- bagacrap 10y agoI also think the Chrome team might be unhappy that the blog post confuses the terms "plugin" and "extension". So yea, Google is not a monolith.