On November 26, 2015 3:31:11 PM CST, Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 26 November 2015 at 18:15, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@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* -- Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
