Decoded: GNU coreutils (2019)
Very nice work and much easier than trawling through the repository.Some ignorant and probably cliched musing: when I look at small utilities like these I am always struck by a seeming distinction between best practices for little C programs versus best practices for large C applications (the author of the post touches on this ad well).In particular, the explicit flow (including goto) and “pedantic” style is actually quite appropriate for something I say all this as an immutable functional-first dev who hasn’t done much native code :) And I think the various type-safe / memory-safe / etc versions of these tools are worth developing. But there’s something to be said about well-optimized native code that clearly “does what it says on the box” in a way that’s accessible to anyone who understands basic Linux programming - even if they can only contextually read C code.(My only real gripe is typographic / linting related, mostly due to being a whippersnapper).