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by ffsm8 604 days ago
You're angry because the author tried to make the library searchable by removing a few letters..?

And they didn't even come up with the gfx shorthand for graphics, its admittedly an old one and barely seen nowadays... But it's always been the sister to sfx/sound effects

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It's also likely a reference to the rust library underlying this whole stack (gfx-rs)
Alternatively, "Special Effects". Also VFX/Visual Effects, etc., one supposes.

Although that would have it expand to "Graph Effects" (hmm, that could be an interesting library), or "Graphic Effects".

But GFX expanding to simply "Graphics" has a history going back at least to the early 1990s, and even further:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%2...