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jazzyjackson01/21/20251 replyview on HN

I'm still dealing with figuring out how to dodge regreSSHion on Windows so this piqued my interest, I haven't had the occasion to compare glibc and musl, but this post is illuminating [0]

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@musl/112711796005712271


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ruthmarx01/21/2025

Honestly, I have had very few issues with it. Generally for the big issues there compatibly layer packages available, e.g. you can install a musl-fts package since musl doesn't implement fts.

I think there is value in a cleaner, newer, more minimal c library. Pretty much everything just works, and for what doesn't I either compile statically in a devuan container or use a flatpak.