[jkachmar]

reposting my comment from another time this discussion came up:

"Cosmopolitan has basically always felt like the interesting sort of technical loophole that makes for a fun blog post which is almost guaranteed to make it to the front page of HN (or similar) purely based in ingenuity & dedication to the bit.

as a piece of foundational technology, in the way that `libc` necessarily is, it seems primarily useful for fun toys and small personal projects.

with that context, it always feels a little strange to see it presented as a serious alternative to something like `glibc`, `musl`, or `msvcrt`; it’s a very cute hack, but if i were to find it in something i seriously depend on i think i’d be a little taken aback."

[sublimefire]

The problem with this take is that it is not grounded in facts that should determine if the thing is good or bad.

Logically having one thing instead of multiple makes sense as it simplifies the distribution and bytes stored/transmitted. I think the issue here is that it is not time tested. I believe multiple people in various places around the globe think about it and will try to test it. With time this will either bubble up or be stale.

[wmf]

But what's actually bad about it?