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		MisterTea on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim.wasm No, I think the proper persons to look to are the C/Unix folks from bell labs where simplicity and pragmatism ruled. RMS means well but GNU is a bloated mess.

Fnoord on April 26, 2019 [–]

If you don't want the bloat, the OpenBSD folks rewrite many bloated tools (including GNU or GPL tools) with their own implementation. Their recent project is OpenRsync.

MisterTea on April 27, 2019 | [–]

I'm an OpenBSD user myself :-) I love simple so I gravitate towards it. I'm also a plan 9 fan and tinker in 9front.

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