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		sgerenser on Feb 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C Wow, reimplementing printf is like pre-heartbleed OpenSSL level of NIH insanity.

exDM69 on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

Well it seems that the developer wanted to support embedded platforms too.

printf isn't a part of the freestanding C standard, and neither is snprintf. That said, there are portable freestanding snprintf implementations out there with permissive licensing.

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