Vaqt: High-Precision Date/time in C
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The HN community shares a GitHub repository for Vaqt, a C library for high-precision date and time handling, with a generally positive reception.
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eqvinox
3 months ago
Unless there is a reason they can't, I feel like libraries like this should use existing abstractions where possible. In this case: struct timespec on Unix systems. Defining a new "Time" struct that has the same members just creates a usage barrier that needn't be there.
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