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I've never heard of a library being called anything else - look at the common file extension .lib, for example.
by zabzonk 1y ago
I've never heard of a library being called anything else - look at the common file extension .lib, for example.
- eythian 1y agoI don't see .lib being all that common, but it might just be what I'm used to. `.so` or `.dll` or such sure (though to be fair, the latter does include the word library.)
- spacechild1 1y ago.lib is the traditional extension for static libraries and import libraries on Windows. Every .dll has an accompanying .lib. (Msys2 uses their own extensions, namely .a for static libraries and .dll.a for import libraries.)
- empath75 1y agoIt's not _that_ they are called libraries, but _why_ they are called libraries. I had assumed, like many others that it was purely by analogy (ie, a desktop), and not that the term originated with a physical library of tapes.