>> No matter how good the interface is, it’s almost certain this will never hit Linux in the next 5-10 years. It’s not because the interface is bad, but because the glibc-devs and other people are scared of simple and straight-forward interfaces, rather not doing anything than implementing an interface which handles the general case rather than trying to cover the 0.5% of edge cases, being complex and bloated.

> This is such a tough lesson to learn and to apply. I still fail at it most of the time in my own code, thinking up the weirdest edge cases possible that I need to handle rather than making the 99% case nice and simple.

I'm a CS grad student, I've worked in the industry before, and I am 100% guilty of sometimes dismissing a nice and simple solution because the perfectionist in me is annoyed that an edge case takes O(n^2) or that the algorithm won't give the optimal answer in some pretty rare circumstances.

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