what you call "bloat" is near the bottom of the list of the problems with GNU
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Replying to @whitequark @TMalthus
Bloat = bug surface = vulns. E.g. idiotic bash features like exported functions.
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Replying to @RichFelker @TMalthus
not necessarily. I18n support is swept under "bloat", better allocators (in case of Rust) are swept under "bloat", ...
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Replying to @whitequark @TMalthus
*nod* that's just stupid misclassification. But there are historical reasons, e.g. GNU grep getting 100x slower in UTF8 locales.
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Replying to @RichFelker @TMalthus
the typical pro-"clean"-software person argument then goes like "let's abandon UTF-8, *handwaving* it's not unix enough"
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Replying to @whitequark @TMalthus
I agree there's a lot of stupid crap & luddism in this area. Pro vs anti UTF-8 separates them remarkably well.
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