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Glib: as invaluable as stdlib
I started using GLib around two years ago for GHashTable, then GAsyncQueue, now I consider it as vital as stdlib.
It's remarkable how much easier it is to write in C with GLib.
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libstrophe: a great start
I have a personal preference for shared libraries and versioned releases, if it were not for lack of these I would rate this library a 5.
There's certainly room for improvement beyond those critiques, but this is one of the best XMPP client libraries I've looked at.
Projects currently using Loudmouth should certainly look into this further.
Open Dynamics Engine: wish we had an alternative
The ODE developers intend their project as a framework for building custom physics engines. This has caused a serious conflict with GNU/Linux packagers who prefer shared libraries (for a good reason).
In lack of the ODE project's leadership acknowledging their community is using a shared library, we have ODE built with different options on different distros and thus behaving differently. To my knowledge there's no way to turn on/off
Loudmouth: avoid this
The loudmouth project has a lot of ambitious people involved with it but a serious lack of leadership.
Numerous project maintainers who have used or are using loudmouth as a dependency have complained about their patches for important bugs (ie, Windows building) being ignored or rejected. Everyone I've talked to is migrating to another solution.
Take a look at libstrophe as an alternative. It's fairly mature, already has decent cross-platform support, and has experienced leadership managing it.