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Re:Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D raster... by pjmlp on Sunday February 22, 2026 @03:11AM (#47109274)
Yeah, and?

There isn't a single build system without issues, other than siloed languages without language standards.

Header libraries only started to be a thing when scripting generation educated in Python and Ruby during the 2010's turned into compiled languages.

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Re:Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D raster... by tw061023 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:05PM (#47170556)
That's... definitely a way to describe Sean Barrett, whose excellent libraries popularized this style.
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