glibc
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
14warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Oct 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“they are doing a more assiduous job”
“how many other things do you know where you need to go back 12 years to find an ABI break?”
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“The glibc people are so serious about backward and forward compatibility”
Caveats and dissent
“glibc has an unstable ABI”
“A breakage hasn't been observed doesn't mean that there is no tight-coupling between ld-linux.so and glibc”
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“https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 is the most "famous" example.”
“The dependency on glibc is an unfortunate limitation”
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Data: glibc.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 21
“glibc has an unstable ABI”
“the glibc people simply didn't want the support burden”
“A breakage hasn't been observed doesn't mean that there is no tight-coupling between ld-linux.so and glibc”
“https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 is the most "famous" example.”
“GNU libc does let you extend it”
“The dependency on glibc is an unfortunate limitation”
“The weakness is embedded into the architecture of glibc”
“The only problem with this approach is that glibc cannot have multiple versions running at once”
“they are doing a more assiduous job”
“The use of these hook functions is not safe in multithreaded”
“Some of the most popular games and software broke”
“how many other things do you know where you need to go back 12 years to find an ABI break?”
“Glibc has been a source of breakage for proprietary software”
“The glibc people are so serious about backward and forward compatibility”
“if you've ever dug into the guts of glibc's loader it's 40 years of unreadable cruft”
“The documentation to make static binary with GLibc is sparce for a reason”
“if glibc can do it, why not!”
“Wherever possible I compile with gethostbyname instead of getaddrinfo. I use musl instead of glibc”
“statically linking glibc is not supported and basically does not work”
“glibc is a curse”
“Glibc has some of the weirdest complexities I have ever seen”