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		ViscountPenguin 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software essays that shaped me "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.

unwind 9 days ago | [–]

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

Jtsummers 9 days ago | [–]

Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from.

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