 when a C/C++ programmer says "no dependencies" it means they have copied unknown versions of various dependencies into a particular subdirectory of their project. you can learn a lot about the author's personality by what directory name they choose. "vendor" -> web developer adjacent 24 comments
 @andrewrk alternate alternate joke: the library is a single header containing 300 kB of templates @andrewrk love the implication that C/C++ developers as a whole are sneaky, self-aware, unskilled web developers :blobcatgiggle:  @reykjalin@fosstodon.org @andrewrk@mastodon.social Meanwhile, in the unskilled web developers lair... :chickwizard:   @andrewrk this is why the us dept of energy has spent over a decade building up @spack! we can't let highly paid scientists in the federal government be held back from their science work by having to solve little microtransactions of DLL hell every time they want to just focus on their own c/++ code for once! higher standards of practice that avoid sequestering expertise are out there! @andrewrk we use the clingo ASP logic solver; i believe c/++ ABI compatibility is a much more complex and appropriate use case for a 3rdparty logic solver than smaller ecosystems like pip/npm/cargo, and was looking to translate dependencies across tools/ecosystems @andrewrk i have begun some of this investigation with      @andrewrk Heh. I'm not a programmer, but the only program I know to make that claim is written in Fortran, and the first version came out in the early 70s (major rewrites in 1997 and 2010), so I believe him, since who's code was he going to copy in the early 70s? It was distributed by mailing boxes of punch cards to you!    @grayrattus @andrewrk Problem is that C libraries have a habit of having unknown vulnerabilities in them that are eventually discovered. All libraries, really, but C especially.   @andrewrk Sounds more like a C++ thing. They also seem to have a fondness for "header-only, no-install" libraries. I think Boost used to be in this category but now you can't get away without installing some compiled libs anyway. LMDB is in C and has no other dependencies besides libc.  @andrewrk I think under these definitions, I'm a straight-up thief? I have copied Base58 implementation once into a file called "base58". (Obviously, putting a comment that I stole this code into the file, attributing, complying with licenses).  |
Gregory's Server
alternate joke:
what they say: no dependencies
what they mean: over half of the project's line count by volume was written by Sean Barrett