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zenopraxtoday at 11:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

With a tagline of "a universal document converter" it is almost a guarantee to become a complicated program but how much of it is being used for any single conversion?

Two more examples:

Rclone is "bloated" but it needs to be in order to fulfill its purpose.

ZFS is "bloated" because it combines volumes and filesystems but breaking the Unix philosophy also enables a different kind of synergy and simplicity elsewhere.


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lifthrasiirtoday at 11:31 AM

A universal document converter is expected to expand via adding support for additional formats---that's okay (same for your other examples). I'm much more worried about the widening scope of the project.

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redsocksfan45today at 12:57 PM

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