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by jcelerier 820 days ago
> strdup does but it was only recently adopted into the standard, it was previously an extension.

Does it really matter when people were already writing code with strdup when the zig and rust creators were in middle school ? It was already there in BSD 4.3 (1986) apparently.

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GNU obstacks also already exist for as long as I can remember.

Everything old is new again...

It really doesn’t matter and that’s my point.