CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

As an implementation detail, I assume many programs simply ignore the CR character already? Whilst of course many windows programs (and protocols as mentioned) still require CRLF, surely the most efficient way to make something cross-platform if to simply act on the LF part of CRLF, that way it works for both CRLF and LF line ends.

The fact that both CRLF and LF used the same control character in my eyes in a huge bonus for this type of action to actually work. Simply make everything cross platform and start ignoring CR completely. I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned explicitly as a course of action in the article, instead it focuses on making people change their understanding of LF in to NL which is as unnecessary complication that will cause inevitable bikeshedding around this idea.

>> instead it focuses on making people change their understanding of LF in to NL which is as unnecessary complication that will cause inevitable bikeshedding around this idea.

Not really. In order to ignore CR you need to treat LF as NL.