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lmm on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The destructive desktop — Linux in trouble?

He's using hash tables, so he's using glib2, and that's far better than everyone implementing their own hash table.

anon1385 on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

False dichotomy. Libraries that provide basic data structures should not have external dependencies. The issue isn't whether or not to use libraries, it is how the functionality of the libraries is organised.

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