I really liked that read, good writing style and the author was coming from the same place that I'm usually coming from (can we redo this ourselves and shave of

I really liked that read, good writing style and the author was coming from the same place that I'm usually coming from (can we redo this ourselves and shave off some bloat in the process). However, as it stands now, it looks more like a cautionary tale on why he should have listened when people told him not to do it :-) I suspect a worthier goal would have been to look for ways to improve the linking footprint of libsodium instead of rolling your own library. Maybe turn the "I want the smaller version without the huge lookup table please" in a compile time option or so. That way more people could have used it without having to commit to "I'll use this little known experimental library instead of libsodium". Commit in the sense of "people will ask why and I will have to defend my decision", not in the sense of "oh no we are locked in!!"