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Still the most stable API on Linux

• dijit 12d ago
  I still think that it’s one of the great ironies of our time. Linux itself bends over backwards to avoid breaking userland, to the point where there is a substantial amount of cruft when interacting directly with the kernel. Only for GNU to say “fuck that” and create a widely mockable situation, one of the worst targets of modern programs for stability… to the point where people start using alternative libc’s specifically to statically link them. What a monumental failure.
  • boredatoms 12d ago
    Dynamic linking by default has turned into a premature optimization over time
  • amrit3128 12d ago
    Just a quirk of the times. GNU made the most optimal solutions of their time, but in the end we still have some tech debt. I think it was inevitable that this would happen with GNU or for that matter any project, since it's not a centralized project like linux and was never going to be since it's not just one piece of software.