alt Hacker NewsAnd why should they care what's going on ?
Do you care about your binary code inside your application, or what exactly happen, in silicon level, when you write "printf("Hello World")" ?
And why should they care what's going on ?
Do you care about your binary code inside your application, or what exactly happen, in silicon level, when you write "printf("Hello World")" ?
Yes.
I verify dynamic linking, ensure no superfluous dylibs are required. I verify ABI requirements and ensure a specific version of glibc is needed to run the executable. I double-check if the functions I care about are inlined. I consider if I use stable public or unstable private API.
But I don't mean that the author doesn't know what's going on in his snippet of code. I'm sure he knows what's going on there.
I mean that upvoters have no idea what's going on, by boosting vibe coding. People who upvote this are the reason of global software quality decline in near future.