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		sempron64 on July 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect se... A lot of pain comes from OS apis which are not supported in the standard library, like graphics, audio, and media. These inevitably need libraries and frameworks to work cross-platform.

sophacles on July 20, 2023 [–]

This is also true in C... you make an excellent point: that for toy programs the default stdlib for any given language is often sufficient.

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