Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities?
by sigstoat on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:39PM
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> Also doesn't really help that pretty much any documentation for Xlib is dozens of years old.
it hasn't changed in dozens of years! what do you expect? somebody sitting around refreshing graphical design for docs on a library you shouldn't use, so that people feel better about using it? you shouldn't be using it!
> frankly, they were difficult to use
try making a combo box with Xlib.
> Doing simple tasks in Xlib was simpler
pro-tip: simple tasks are simple. worry about how difficult the difficult tasks will be.
it hasn't changed in dozens of years! what do you expect? somebody sitting around refreshing graphical design for docs on a library you shouldn't use, so that people feel better about using it? you shouldn't be using it!
> frankly, they were difficult to use
try making a combo box with Xlib.
> Doing simple tasks in Xlib was simpler
pro-tip: simple tasks are simple. worry about how difficult the difficult tasks will be.