I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin.
Back in the day, I had a geekcode which I'm not going to share with you.
418 I'm a teapot.
@katafrakt it doesn't matter for the purposes of this whether many people use it or not, it's the only practical way for applications to behave unless (as @mariamarsh notes) we all move to statically-linked behemoths.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin.
Back in the day, I had a geekcode which I'm not going to share with you.
418 I'm a teapot.
@katafrakt it doesn't matter for the purposes of this whether many people use it or not, it's the only practical way for applications to behave unless (as @mariamarsh notes) we all move to statically-linked behemoths.
Oh yeah, of course, if the reality does not matter, keep wondering why every application has this kind of background process.
The question is, "what's wrong with code in 2022" and the culture of downloading separate things for everything is part of that.