Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o...
by me_again on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:04PM
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I'm saying "it is harder to consume good libraries in C, because it is harder to find them & harder to build them; and once you have done both, you find that good library A and good library B work in very different ways, so you have to do more work to adapt".
And I haven't mentioned the lack of a strong universal string type, the way many libraries typedef their own family of different kinds of integer, the way one library will require you to free() a returned structure and another will require you to call my_library_free()...
It all adds up to additional friction.
You don't have to agree! Maybe I am out of date, I haven't really dealt with this since the mid 2000's. I'd be thrilled to hear this isn't an issue any more.
And I haven't mentioned the lack of a strong universal string type, the way many libraries typedef their own family of different kinds of integer, the way one library will require you to free() a returned structure and another will require you to call my_library_free()...
It all adds up to additional friction.
You don't have to agree! Maybe I am out of date, I haven't really dealt with this since the mid 2000's. I'd be thrilled to hear this isn't an issue any more.