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Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls by alerighi on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:07PM (#32113291)
Musl is liked since it has a non-copyleft license and thus can be used to produce statically-linked executable that are distributed with proprietary licenses. Also Musl is smaller than GLibc thus more suitable for embedded systems.

Anyway, GLibc is just better, both in terms of performance (algorithms are more optimized, at the cost of a bigger executable size) and in terms of available features.

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Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls by enriquto on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:33PM (#32113482)
> Musl is liked since it has a non-copyleft license

Not only for that. As much as I love copyleft, I'm really happy that musl exists so that I can easily test my programs locally for portability. Compiling stuff with different compilers and libraries exposes at once all sorts of weird bugs before you get to publish your codes.

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