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Lix Main / Re: Notepad doesn't understand Unix line endings
« on: January 23, 2018, 05:42:57 PM »
This is the last thing I say to it because it upsets me; you can't image how much. But as I indicated, maybe that results from my non-understanding of the matter.
What you say makes no sense to me.
If Zig sacrifices cross-compatibility it's a good feature but if Notepad does it's a bad bug.
You say it's better for other users. But who are these other users you have in mind, only Linux users? Code can be produced without going through a compiler. And code from OSes that don't have the right endings, format etc. has to be converted as well or especially because of the strict standard. This seems just like a mix-up of what ought to be and what is. Maybe if all programmers adhere to this philosophy everything works out fine but is this realistic?
For me this sounds just like a nightmare for all users that have an OS that doesn't use Unix endings/standards by default.
What you say makes no sense to me.
If Zig sacrifices cross-compatibility it's a good feature but if Notepad does it's a bad bug.
You say it's better for other users. But who are these other users you have in mind, only Linux users? Code can be produced without going through a compiler. And code from OSes that don't have the right endings, format etc. has to be converted as well or especially because of the strict standard. This seems just like a mix-up of what ought to be and what is. Maybe if all programmers adhere to this philosophy everything works out fine but is this realistic?
For me this sounds just like a nightmare for all users that have an OS that doesn't use Unix endings/standards by default.