1513
Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 3 months ago

I believe the quintessential example is curl Also here's the relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

The curl author writes a lot about his struggles, but he's also employed to maintain curl, so not really a good example

load more comments (1 replies)
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
1513 points (99.2% liked)

Programming

17314 readers
101 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev



founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS