Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
by convolvatron on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:17PM
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How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. We’ve really gotten on top of the software complexity problem
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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
by arinlen on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:08PM
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> How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways.
Some libraries managed to preserve API contracts throughout the years just fine.
Even in C++, a language which does not establish a standard ABI, has frameworks which have not been breaking the ABI throughout multiple releases, such as Qt.