Yeah I mean sometimes it's nice to not repeat yourself. In the C world it can be such a plain to include a new library, most people just rewrite everything themselves. Take Damus for example: it includes it's own C implementation of sha25...
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Will writes in C? 👀
I don't have an iPhone, so I can't use Damus (yet).
Yeah he's kind of a grey-beard C-freak. I'm not sure until Damus he even used git, he did mailing lists...
Interesting.
double interesting how such hard core low level guys and some even antiques are in this
wait, i might be approaching vintage tho
I think I'm still the oldest person on our team.
yeah, i'm second to my boss who is 55 and energetic
Although, this is just our scene.
Most devs on here are just hackers, I think. They grew up anon on GitHub, and never had to personally face scrutiny, so they don't actually care if their stuff works because they just ghost, if too many people complain.