Splint VS Whipper

Whenever I see people talk about the portability or compatibility advantages of C, I'm reminded of how "even C isn't compatible with C", because you typically aren't talking about up-to-date GCC or LLVM on these niche platforms... you're talking about some weird or archaic vendor-provided compiler... Possibly with syntax extensions that static analyzers like splint will choke on. (Splint can't even understand near... Source: about 1 year ago

Huh. I think I actually needed to use the equivalent position for certain splint annotations in my C retro-hobby project. Source: about 1 year ago

I often like to say that Rust's bindings are a way to trick people into writing the compile-time safety annotations that they didn't want to write for things like splint. (Seriously. Look into how much splint is capable of checking with the correct annotations.). Source: over 1 year ago

Linters like Splint [0] can do that for C. I’m not saying that Rust’s built-in approach isn’t better, but please be careful about what exactly you claim. [0] http://splint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

(Sort of like how, for my DOS hobby project, I use splint to require explicit casts between typedefs so I can use the newtype pattern without having to manually reach into wrapper struct fields in places that don't do conversions.). Source: almost 2 years ago

Https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper Finding a good CD drive to rip them is the first step. https://flemmingss.com/importing-data-from-discogs-and-others-to-musicbrainz/ IME Discogs had the track data most often. And obviously rip to flac. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

It's a Linux app that does CD Ripping. It runs in command line and can basically be semi automatic. Https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper. Source: about 1 year ago

A drive to read CDs and Whipper (automatic bit-perfect checks, conversion to FLAC, and playlist file creation). Source: about 1 year ago

(eg. It's the first listed option for Whipper, which is the closest open-source alternative to Exact Audio Copy and a Python project with a ton of C dependencies... And I say this as someone who dislikes Docker enough that I still went through the hassle of the "Building" section.). Source: over 1 year ago