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Fun fact: the code name for the editor was TrogEdit, with Trogdor the Burninator as their mascot. I believe they even had a life size cardboard Trogdor by their

Fun fact: the code name for the editor was TrogEdit, with Trogdor the Burninator as their mascot. I believe they even had a life size cardboard Trogdor by their desks. It's one of the oldest, most stable, and never rewritten parts of the Gmail codebase.

dataflow 2y ago
> It's one of the oldest, most stable, and never rewritten parts of the Gmail codebase. Sorry to be negative, but I guess the lack of maintenance explains why the undo/redo is so atrocious, both in speed and in correctness.
- jmathai 2y ago
  Sometimes, simple feedback like this leads to a complete refactoring which addresses the main point of the refactor but misses the mark on so much more...for all of eternity.
dmd 2y ago
What does “life size” mean here?
- wlonkly 2y ago
  The same size as a live Trogdor, of course.
  - dmd 2y ago
    Of course, how silly of me!
srockets 2y ago
Another fun fact: this isn't the only software named after Trogdor: Apache Kafka's test framework is also called Trogdor[0]. -- [0] https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/trogdor https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/trogdor
1659447091 2y ago
For anyone else also interested in knowing what this Trogdor the Burninator is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ (Strong Bad Email #58)