compiler-specific posts:
every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:

libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake
Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github
Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake
Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev
GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an "easter egg", and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though
Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids
snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the "woke mind-virus", but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license
Google Squeebular (deprecated since 2017)

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 6 points 7 hours ago

Oh God, I've come across this post trying to package Snorble for Windows as an Intune package, does anyone happen to know the switches to get it install silently?

[–] _____@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago

I'm at the phase where I'm reading constant blog posts about how libsqueeb2 sucks with metrics supporting them but the guy writing the blog post is also writing libsqueeb3 but it hasn't seem an update for months. you really want to migrate to libsqueeb3 for various reasons but youre unsure about the state of the project, but for now you use libsqueeb2 while stalking this mysterious open source blogger

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

If I can easily call Squeeb.js from the command line, then I'm using it. I'm assuming this is something I need to do once and never again. That's my view of the hypothetical, at least. Definitely not using a c or rust library. GNU Scrimble is tempting. I honestly might try it first. I can just see myself getting lost and frustrated by the weird syntax of flags and lisp.

I'll probably have to sit there and remember how to install something to use through the command line from npm. I'll likely have an existential debate about whether it try yarn or not. I'll see where the project is now and if npm still sucks. Then I'll remember npx vaguely and try that. I'll get all of this set up and leave it in my rc files only to forget what it all is the next time I need to squeeb a snorble or use any Node cli stuff.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We need something like SI units in programming.

[–] AlataOrange@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 hours ago

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously you use a half implemented java wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev that was a students practice project 4 years ago that they left public on github

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Shout out to the random GitHub user that would periodically fork my college project about a Pizza shop's inventory system and translate everything to Chinese.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

Hahaha

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 38 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In my experience, the c library also depends on several additional libraries which is fine except it needs version 5.0+ of a library that you're already using 3.4 of. The APIs for the library have been significantly changed, a function in the library that you heavily use has been deprecated, and upgrading to use it is more work than just implementing the desired feature yourself. The manager who suggested the library thinks you are overstating the amount of work using it will require and thinks technical debt is the money he still owes the Indian subcontractors.

[–] TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This problem right here is why the entirety of containerization was invented.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

And Nix!

[–] fool@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

No, no, it's fine -- I saw a Python2 sample squeeblimator that was never fully fleshed out. I just need to rewrite it... dodge the deprecations... use a few list comprehensions...

The next dev 5 years in the future: wtf is this?

[–] luciole 22 points 16 hours ago

Ahah fuck it I’m taking the worst decision: I’m grabbing that hermetic spec, I’m cannibalizing every other implementation under the sun and I’m writing my own. Because you only live once

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Every time I squeeb a snorble it results in a lot of internal cursing when the sqawk doesn't compile and I get 50+ error messages.