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I wonder what a reasonably modern C library would look like, were we to design it from scratch?


The last paragraph reads:

> If you would like to see interesting innovation, check out what Cosmopolitan Libc is up to. It’s what I imagine C could be if it continued evolving along practical dimensions.


I found that sentence weird because when I checked Cosmopolitan, it included most if not all of the functions this article was claiming shouldn't be used.


That confused me, too. Cosmopolitan is an interesting piece of engineering, but its goals seem entirely orthogonal to the topic of this article.




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