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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished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: 0s | 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. globular-toast ◴[14 Oct 24 07:15 UTC] No.41835025[source]▶
But, like the article says, LF is not useful. I could always interpret LF as NL and if you send CRs too it won't break anything. If you know I'm interpreting LF that way you can just stop sending the CRs. That's what happened in Unix.