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0 pointsforrestthewoods1y ago0 comments

Because it’s literally fine and a non-issue. Only whiny Linux babies cry about it. It’s trivial for tools to support. Trivial. Like this is easiest, least harmful baggage in the history tech debt baggage.

There will always be tech debt. Always and forever. Burn cycles on one that matters.

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Avamander1y ago

So what's the issue with getting rid of this debt slowly? It costs basically nothing, yet makes it cleaner for those in the future. Debts matter at a larger scale and the long run.

wongogue1y ago

They carried the debt. Why shouldn’t everyone else?

Regarding this issue…I don’t think the author is advocating for patching standards. Just consider CR as deprecated and use it only for backward compatibility.

I do it similarly. I don’t convert line endings but any new project uses LF irrespective of the OS and configured as such in the editor.

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