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		ChrisMarshallNY on Aug 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does it take to be a good programmer? > However, as an industry we don't have a great way to know what is or isn't reliable. That's the rub. Your zlib example is one of the "Platonic Ideal of Quality Open Source" libraries. Using that is a no-brainer. Any suggestion of rating/licensing/qualifying open-source projects, is met with ... resistance ...

GoblinSlayer on Aug 30, 2022 [–]

It's still a full plate of old good C spaghetti https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/eff308af425b67093bab25...

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