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What are some examples of xkcd 2347? (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jeff@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

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[–] axzxc1236@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FORM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORM_(symbolic_manipulation_system)

Recent news article: https://www.wired.com/story/a-crucial-particle-physics-computer-program-risks-obsolescence/

[–] Anwarias@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nodejs left-pad https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

[–] 0xpr03@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

glibc

[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, is glibc really only maintained by a small number of people? I would not have expected that.

[–] 0xpr03@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's not much.. https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/graphs/sid?ref_type=heads

[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, but are those commits to the glibc library itself or commits to the Debian package of it? The link makes it look like the latter, but I could be wrong.

[–] 0xpr03@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ah yeah the original is actually here https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git

running git shortlog -s -n -e glibc-2.35.. (03.02.2022 to now) gives

  270  Adhemerval Zanella 
   179  Noah Goldstein
   166  Florian Weimer
   158  Sunil K Pandey
   105  Sergey Bugaev
    84  Samuel Thibault
 [...]
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[–] ShinusTP@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I believe a great example is... you know... the entire internet.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

FFmpeg, libc

[–] rimu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

kbin

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