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I agree there are many considerations when choosing a library, but conciseness does come up. For example, I was recently impressed with how concise http-kit is. The author seems proud of it too:

http://www.http-kit.org/http-kit-clean-small.html

You and I probably just have different values on this matter. Your comment implies that conciseness is merely "nice", so I'm guessing you just don't value that aspect of code as highly as I do.

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We'll have to just disagree.

I place zero value on the detail of the implementation of a library; only on the API that I use.

It's like picking a radio at the shop by opening each of them up and inspecting the quality of soldering and board schematics.

...yes, you'll get a better radio if you do, but if you're furnishing a kitchen, you'll spend the rest of the month opening appliances and looking inside them instead of building your kitchen.

I guess it depends what you're doing.

/shrug

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