Re: [dev] [lnanosmtp]

From: FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:52:51 +0200

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 23:06:54 -0700
Louis Santillan <lpsantil_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Louis,
 
> Good job for getting this working. I'm a believer that suckless
> indirectly speaks to API design in addition to software design. There
> are many parts of libc that suck, IMO. Years ago, when I found Felix
> von Leitner's talk about software design [0], and dietlibc [1], and
> libdjb [2], and libowfat [3], I became curious about exploring other
> runtimes for C [4][5][6][7][8][9]. Keep applying your ulinux runtime.

are you joking? This reeks of NiH. In many regards, Posix has issues
and without doubt, they can hinder you. But does it really justify
just handrolling your own, unportable, probably buggy libc?

Cheers

FRIGN

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FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
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