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diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/006-some-libs.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/006-some-libs.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..774150d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/006-some-libs.7 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +.Dd December 10, 2019 +.Dt SOME-LIBS 7 +.Os "Causal Agency" +. +.Sh NAME +.Nm Some Libraries +.Nd good ones +. +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This is a little list of C libraries +I've had good experiences using. +. +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl lcurl +The library behind the +.Xr curl 1 +command. +It downloads or uploads things on the internet +through a number of protocols, +not just HTTP. +It has an easy-to-use library API, +appropriately named +.Xr libcurl-easy 3 . +I've used it to implement a +.Lk https://causal.agency/bin/title.html "page title fetcher" . +. +.It Fl lcurses +Okay so this one really isn't great. +Its interfaces can seem archaic +and its documentation is often poor. +However, it gets the job done +and is commonly available pretty much everywhere. +Interesting to note that +.Nx +uses its own implementation of curses +that is not GNU ncurses, +unlike +.Fx . +. +.It Fl ledit +This is a BSD line editing library, +similar to GNU readline. +It supports right-aligned prompts, +which I prefer for variable-length +information in shells. +. +.It Fl lkcgi +A CGI and FastCGI library +for web applications in C. +Don't worry, +it isolates HTTP parsing and input validation +from application logic +in sandboxed processes. +I think it's an excellent example +of how to design an API for C. +I used it to implement the +.Lk https://ascii.town/explore.html "torus web viewer" . +. +.It Fl lsqlite3 +An embedded relational database engine. +It's amazing what you can do with this, +and it's super easy to use! +My one gripe with it is that the library and SQL documentation +are not available as +.Xr man 1 +pages. +. +.It Fl ltls +This is a new library in LibreSSL +which provides a much simpler interface for TLS sockets +compared to +.Fl lssl . +It's much more like what you'd expect +from other TLS socket wrappers, +with calls like +.Xr tls_connect 3 , +.Xr tls_read 3 +and +.Xr tls_write 3 . +. +.It Fl lz +An implementation of the DEFLATE compression algorithm +and gzip format. +It's all documented in comments in +.In zlib.h , +which isn't bad, +but for my own use I copied the docs into +.Lk https://code.causal.agency/june/zlib-man-pages "manual pages" . +.El +. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile index 09076305..2702a46a 100644 --- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ TXTS += 002-writing-mdoc.txt TXTS += 003-pleasant-c.txt TXTS += 004-uloc.txt TXTS += 005-testing-c.txt +TXTS += 006-some-libs.txt all: ${TXTS} |