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Re:Low level is easy (2008) by tux3 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:14AM (#27996806)
>If you don't believe me, UIKit alone exposes I think about half a million public symbols.

That's interesting, do you have a source for this?

For reference the Qt5 framework only has about 25k publicly documented functions and the shared libs expose ~100k symbols.

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Re:Low level is easy (2008) by blacktriangle on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:16AM (#27996830)
I think that passes the smell test. They're at the same order of magnitude and UIKit includes a ton of optional functionality that is situationally used where Qt would likely pull in a 3rd party lib.
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Re:Low level is easy (2008) by mojuba on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:59AM (#27997313)
Honestly I don't remember but someone counted all the public symbols which included constants too.
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