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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

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422 points km | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 19:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
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moomin ◴[13 Oct 24 20:39 UTC] No.41831394[source]▶
Counterpoint: Unix deciding on a non-standard line ending was always a mistake. It has produced decades of random incompatibility for no particular benefit. CRLF isn’t a convention: it’s two different pieces of the base terminal API. You have no idea how many programs rely on CR and LF working correctly.
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1. bmitc ◴[13 Oct 24 22:03 UTC] No.41832081[source]▶
I have always felt that somehow Linux and proponents of it default to every decision it made being right and everything else, namely Windows, being wrong. I honestly feel Linux is orders of magnitude more complex. It is much easier, in my experience to make software just work on Windows. (This is not to say Windows doesn't have bad decisions. It has many. All the major OSs are terrible.)