Virtual synchrony is usually presented to programmers through a simple distributed programming library that supports at least three basic interfaces.

Netpbm is an open source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world.

The programmer also does not have to specify which programming libraries to include since QB64 does it automatically.

There are also many programming libraries that contain neural network functionality and that can be used in custom implementations.

Cinder is a programming library, designed to give the C++ language advanced visualization abilities.

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget-based user interfaces.

In many programming libraries there is a function called atan2 which performs an equivalent computation.

Also, specialized programming libraries help to output the text in a way appropriate to the given display device and interface to it.

All Hippix utilities are implemented using functions in the programming library.

The cluster also had compilers and scientific programming libraries installed.