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by me_again
1120 days ago
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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 Maybe I am out of date, I haven't really dealt with this since the mid 2000's. I'd be thrilled to hear this isn't an issue any more. |
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It's not really a matter of whether or not I agree. I was just trying to understand what the assertion was!
I was baffled by the notion because I couldn't think of anything inherent in the language that made it hard to use good libraries. Now I understand that's not really what the assertion was.