kleeon [he/him, he/him] to programming • 6 months ago

The Worst API Ever Made

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The Worst API Ever Made

kleeon [he/him, he/him] to programming • 6 months ago

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programming@programming.dev

A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.

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Llituro [he/him, they/them]M
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6 months ago
My least favorite API is the CFITSIO library for working with FITS format data files. That shit was written in Fortran way back in the day and every decent library to touch it is just a wrapper around that. And it sucks. But this nonsense might be worse honestly.

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