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  • Yes. The only way to send patches without something like Github is over email. I don’t mind all the other stuff, but there’s no other way to do PRs than over email, and I hate email. I didn’t see that he gave alternatives. His preferred solution was an email

    The formal PR button in a forge is a way to do that with one click, but a short email with all the same information is just as good.

    Like, dawg, no it aint










  • GLFW is a C library, not a C++ one, and an old one at that, and so the reason is that a long time ago, there was no bool in C. Every library would make their own true and false bc it’s handy to have.

    Nowadays, the type _Bool has been added to C, and C++ has built-in bool, but you can still see the legacy of no boolean in C as to use the type name “bool” as well as the key words “true” and “false” for 1 and 0, you have to include “stdbool.h,” as well as in custom types in these old GL-adjacent libraries.





  • I agree. We’ve let the standards for what is good drop.

    I think it’s mainly because the “just works” mentality has become infectious among engineers. It’s one thing when just starting out, but as you learn more and gain experience you should care more.

    People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.

    I think the second, slightly less strong reason is because many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway. Another skill I see less and less amongst my brethren.