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Everything about GLib
Software library
GLib is a bundle of three low-level system libraries written in C and developed mainly by GNOME. GLib's code was separated from GTK, so it can be used by software other than GNOME and has been developed in parallel ever since. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GLibA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: FINTECH AND INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR POST-WAR RECOVERY OF UKRAINE Glib Aleksin1, Svitlana Usherenko2, Rostyslav Dyuk3Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Geophysical library subroutines (*GLIB)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Interface modulation induced by the 1T Co-WS2 shell nanosheet layer at the metallic NiTe2/Ni core–nanoskeleton: Glib electrode-kinetics for HER, OER, and ORRCited 99 times
- Go sideways: GObjectA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Vala (programming language)A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Interface modulation induced by the 1T Co-WS2 shell nanosheet layer at the metallic NiTe2/Ni core–nanoskeleton: Glib electrode-kinetics for HER, OER, and ORR
The GLIB technique for genome-wide mapping of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine
Chronology of the Eocene continental deposits of Africa: Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the El Kohol and Glib Zegdou Formations, Algeria
The Gigabit Link Interface Board (GLIB), a flexible system for the evaluation and use of GBT-based optical links
Latest Early-early Middle Eocene deposits of Algeria (Glib Zegdou, HGL50), yield the richest and most diverse fauna of amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Palaeogene of Africa
The Gigabit Link Interface Board (GLIB) ecosystem
Les rongeurs de l'Eocène d'Afrique Nord-Occidentale [Glib Zegdou ( Algérie) et Chambi (Tunisie)] et l'origine des anomaluridae.
How to avoid glib interdisciplinarity
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Geophysical library subroutines (*GLIB)Kenneth Keeling · 1975
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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