Comment by freetonik
4 days ago
I hope you don't feel discouraged by some comments questioning the meaningfulness of this. It's a cool project, and you obviously put some thought into it. Congrats!
4 days ago
I hope you don't feel discouraged by some comments questioning the meaningfulness of this. It's a cool project, and you obviously put some thought into it. Congrats!
In addition, OP clearly describes themselves as a "Fanatical C Developer", so that's enough justification in my book! :)
Doing what you love is fully justified in 2025.
No of course not, I understand where they are coming from in all honesty. Thank you that means a lot!
> I hope you don't feel discouraged by some comments questioning the meaningfulness of this. It's a cool project, and you obviously put some thought into it. Congrats!
I feel like there is too much positive reinforcement for this project (see the comments about how clean the code is, this is how C should be written, etc).
This project is an exceptionally poor example of well-written C. I know the author states that AI was used for the JSON bits, but I rather doubt it based on how over-engineered the env file parsing is.
When C is written in this way it becomes harder to spot bugs.
Offtopic (sorry) but this thread is such a good example of the contrarian dynamic that I can't resist!
The "contrarian dynamic" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... That's probably the clearest way of describing the difference between the kind of comments we want on this site vs. the kind we don't want.
"That's odd, but at least it's better than having the negative ones at the top."
You're being too kind, but I suppose your work requires diplomacy. When multiple top-level comments basically say "I can't believe the amount of hate in this thread", without adding any other thought, the thread start to feel like a simulacra of a discussion, an absurd comedy of nonsense, a deeply layered shaggy dog story.
Come on, people. Want to counterbalance negative comments? Find something positive and interesting to say. Yes, this will require actual effort, as with many things in life. You can do it!