#DLLhell

If you want to get an appreciation of the shitshow that is the Revit API with libraries using modern frameworks, try using Text.Json in your app and get working with Revit 2019-2023 #DllHell 🤦‍♂️

En los 90s los problemas en la programación venían por cosas como el #dllhell ahora la movida viene por tener mil plataformas con mis sistemas y mil problemas distintos con cada una.

You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds. No Electron, no Game Engines, no Web frameworks. Just a lean fast .EXE produced in seconds. Works on any Windows machine WITHOUT Internet connection. Software Development is actually going backwards.

@ErwinWolff @razdriz Saying that VB6 didn't compile natively because it required some dlls (which were shipped with windows anyway) is probably the craziest shit I've heard on this platform so far. Thank you! (btw, by the same logic not a single C program on Linux is compiled natively, jfyi 😉)

@tsoding @ErwinWolff @razdriz Not true. The DLLs did not ship with Windows and there was an utter version chaos known as #DLLhell.

Is it too much to ask that the vcredist's are installed automatically??? @Microsoft #DllHell

How it started challenge...Some of you don't know about allocating $100 a paycheck, taking it to Borders books, carrying these home on the bus, then reading, not quite understanding most of it but managing to highlight a few sections to make it through your tech journey.

@chixcancode @shanselman Pre-everything-online it could take years to get an important piece of knowledge. In my case, where did the system look to load a dll, and in what order. Eventually Microsoft put the docs where Google could find them. #dllhell. This was just one.

Interesting #malware uses #wmic to set path environment variable for system user #dllhell #MalwareCMDMonitor wmic ENVIRONMENT where "name='path' and username='<system>'" set VariableValue="C:\EndPoint;[redacted]%PROGRAMFILES%\Wireshark"

It seems that everything Microsoft does to alleviate #DLLhell just makes it worse.

Pretty good article picturing #FrontEndHell or #JSHell similar to #DLLHell long ago

All #NuGet did was replace #dllhell with #nuggethell.

In the early Node/NPM days, this got crickets: "You'll get different versions of some dependencies trying to interop! It will be chaos!" Today: Storybook depends on webpack 4. If you're on webpack 5, you get 4 and 5 installed together, trying to build the same app. It is chaos.

@garybernhardt Almost like no buddy reads history. #dllhell

@thecodinglove This exact thing happened to me today! #DLLHell #DLLConflicts #UAT #ExclamationPoint 😂😆😂

Oh! Don't miss this kind of problem ... #DLLHell Dynamic Link Libraries #Windows #CrystalReports #legacy #softwaredevelopment

node_modules mismatch hell is the same as a Linux Package hell is the same as a Windows DLL hell. #dllhell for everybody

one of those days when everything feels broken. Just fell into this dependency black hole #dllhell #thoughtnugetwassupposetofixthis

shared libraries and dynamic linking

@b0rk This calls back to an earlier comic you wrote/drew. How do processes get their shared libraries? They memory-map them! And that allows the non-variable portions of those libraries to be shared by all processes using them, which saves a TON of memory over static linking.

@b0rk Dynamic libraries also allow bugs to be fixed without having to rebuild the applications. This is particularly important for security related libraries, like OpenSSL. Problems crop up, however, when incompatible API changes break applications without notice. #DLLHell

All who remember #dllhell say hi!

Good old times!

You know when you are up the creek when you spot legacy code that doesn't include the current operating systems! #DLLHell #Windows #legacy #softwaredevelopment

Today I solved a failing dependency issue by patching a shared object, because it felt to be the easiest way 🤷‍♀️ #DLLhell

@mwesterdahl76 Looking at the repo, it's unlikely to work on osx/linux. Qt5Gui.dll in a command line tool?? #dllhell

It has happened before and it will happen again. So say we all! #DLLHell #JarHell #ModuleVersionHell #JavaScript #NodeJS