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ISO C committee, a failed standard effort:
- dysfunctional, couldn't standardise a simple improvement if their lives depended on it
- arcane, incomprehensible specs that nobody reads
- all volunteers. literally nobody involved gets paid
- they have the gall to paywall it??
Khronos (Vulkan, OpenGL) and MIDI specs:
- long track record of pragmatism
- written by big companies that have hardware to ship and no patience for bullshit
- down-to-earth, sometimes refreshingly casual, easy-to-understand specs
- everyone involved has a real job
- free :)
these are broad generalisations based on vibes and some amount of first-, second- and third-hand experience, so i can't go into detail, sorry. also, please don't be insulted if you worked on the C standard, this is not a personal attack but a statement about the system as a whole
‪(i'm not here to talk shit for internet points, i think the state of the C standard is a very sad thing and i want to understand how others can avoid it)‬