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		guerrilla on Oct 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To learn a new language, read its standard library Yeah, the first thing that popped into my head was some poor n00b spending the next six years of their life deciphering glibc. There have got to be easier ways :)

yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

musl, I would expect? (granted, that's C, but vs glibc...)

guerrilla on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, musl is simpler and cleaner than glibc. I was referring to C, by the way. libstdc++ is actually part of gcc, not glibc.

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