[ctoshiningc]

Another classic case of "if everyone does something differently than you do, it might be worth investigating why". The hubris to think that basic C time functions have been "broken" all this time, and that nobody noticed or cared. What a joke.

[forrestthewoods]

Many functions in the C API are quite badly designed. The hidden global state in locale for example. HN regularly has articles about nasty bugs that boil down to “C API has several major deficiencies that cause great pain and suffering.

[oliverkwebb]

For a definition of "nobody" that includes Eric S Raymond, one of the most prominent figures in the linux world who's article (https://www.catb.org/esr/time-programming/index.html) I reference multiple times.

[plonk](https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html)

[asveikau]

That looks like a decent article, but for the general case, ESR is not credible on name alone. Go look up criticism of that guy.

[MortyWaves]

Is this really the type of discourse on HN now?

[asveikau]

I don't have time to get into it every time that guy's name comes up.

Basically he's best known for:

* Jargon file

* Parading himself around as "Mr open source" in the late 90s

* Working on what by all accounts was a not very good mail client a long time ago

That's the "good" side that's supposed to give him credibility as an expert, and it's not very much. The negative stuff is pretty bad.

[RickHull]

The Art of Unix Programming

[asveikau]

Already a has-been at that point.

[1718627440]

> Eric S Raymond [...] prominent figure[...] in the linux world

Doesn't he work for Microsoft?

[oliverkwebb]

He was the publisher of the Halloween documents (from my understanding leaked by a whistleblower to him) and has always been a firm opponent to Windows in all his works. Are you thinking of Poettering?

[1718627440]

<del> Isn't this his blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ ?

It is hosted by Microsoft and talks about implementation details of Windows. So I always assumed, that he works there.</del>

My bad, that's Raymond Chen.