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The Libraries Nobody Thinks About
Daniel asked us to celebrate the software nobody thinks about: the small, fundamental pieces of logic that run everywhere and get replaced by no one. We start with zlib, still shipping thirty-one years of continuous maintenance by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler, and with SQLite's own claim of over a trillion active databases. Then we get to the uncomfortable half: OpenSSL securing two-thirds of the encrypted web on about two thousand dollars a year in donations, and the multi-year xz backdoor, where a patient attacker spent years pressuring a solo maintainer before planting malicious code in…
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