Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux

[Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>]

On November 26, 2015 3:31:11 PM CST, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 26 November 2015 at 18:15, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the only library on earth that makes me want to bang my head on the
>floor.
>
>
>There must be others, surely. What about graphics libraries with APIs
>designed for FORTRAN (no data structures)?
>What about ostensible crypto libraries that get their random numbers
>from
>Walmart?

All that is bad...but glibc is worse. The issue is that you kinda *have* to use it, no matter how simple or complicated or stupid your program is. It's just...there. If you want to use a sane(r) libc like musl, your users need another dependency.

Granted, there are other bad libraries or libraries with bad APIs (OpenSSL, SDL [especially for playing short sounds!], PCRE, etc.). However, you really don't *have* to use them. You can usually use RE2 or libregexp9 over PCRE, SFML over SDL, and so forth. NOT WITH GLIBC!!

*rant over now*
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