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Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by ViscountPenguin on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:37PM (#45433757)
"Grug" in this context basically just means a kind of simplistic caveperson-like mindset.

For whatever reason, the sound "Grug" is associated with cavepeople in English.

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Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by Jtsummers on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:51PM (#45434087)
Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from.
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Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by unwind on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:30AM (#45435572)
Seems to be a reference to "The Croods" [1], a 2013 animated movie in which Nicholas Cage (!) voices the caveman Grug.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods

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