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Re:Sunset of libspotify by tommiegannert on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:11PM (#31426472)
I agree. Seems it had a good run. I still remember the fairly long discussions of whether to make the public API C or C++. Fun times. :)
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Re:Sunset of libspotify by gaws on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:50PM (#31427475)
> C or C++

How did Spotify land on C?

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Re:Sunset of libspotify by tommiegannert on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:05AM (#31431577)
The client itself was C++, so it would have been the natural choice. But we didn't want the ABI liability since it was shipped in binary form. So libspotify became a thin C-wrapper over the C++ core. That way, we didn't have to worry about vtable layouts blowing up.
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