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[CursedUrn]

I agree with your critique. We really shouldn't be celebrating when a simple text editor requires literally millions of lines of code to run.

[onion2k → CursedUrn]

We really shouldn't be celebrating when a simple text editor requires literally millions of lines of code to run.

If you include the OS, the hardware BIOS, the switch gear at the ISP, the internet backbone, DNS, BIND, etc, etc it's probably into the billions.