Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations? (piefed.social)

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Musl libc is a more preferable option if security and speed are important to you, compared to glibc, but is this currently the case? Do most applications still not work on musl? And how effective is gcompat?

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[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Ironically, the bug report I read was originally filed for Android as crashpad did not built with bionic either (bionic being the C library on Android).

Glibc is the most popular C library on Linux but also the most non-standard.

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