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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by jlebrech on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:06AM (#15363555)
>>> C is itself a massive dependency

the C standard library?

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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by int_19h on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:22AM (#15363854)
No, the C compiler. Both gcc and Clang are pretty big, even before you account for the standard library. I suppose you could get away with something like tcc, though.
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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by jlebrech on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:02AM (#15365320)
lots and lots of edge cases, I minimal compiler can be kbs
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