Re:Modern C++ Won't Save Us
by jstimpfle on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:44AM
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No I mean solve the problem "we need to build a program that does what it's required to do" (and no more) before trying to build a library that will cure diseases.
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That's a total non sequitur. Libraries can, and usually should, be much smaller than applications.
Libraries are much harder than applications because they must work for a large number of applications with diverse requirements. They need to be more abstract, and therein lies the danger.
Regarding the size, clearly wrong. It depends a lot on the library. A windowing or font rastering library will be a lot larger than your typical application.
And for libraries that are much smaller than the application itself, why bother depending on them? (Anecdote, I heard the Excel team in the 90s had their own compiler).