@gentoobro @lispi314 @Suiseiseki >This disaster leads to all sorts of "virtual environment" nonsense to try to work around it, which only works sometimes.
>The other side is NodeJS and npm
These are the same thing.
Total venv death. Total docker death. etc.

>spergs don't just flip their API's upside-down for shits and giggles because it wasn't RAII-y enough or whatever the latest fad is
This isn't a technical problem, this is a culture problem; it's entirely possible to do this with whatever lib by randomly changing what symbols it exports, it's just that the sorts of people who like C aren't retarded, unlike webniggers.
I say this but then I encounter situations like this with random libs frequently too.

Motherfuckers really need package management.
https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.xhtml