Of course, and given the "crowd" I should probably have added a caveat about glibc[1], but using a non-glibc is pretty non-trivial for many developers (and thus

Of course, and given the "crowd" I should probably have added a caveat about glibc[1], but using a non-glibc is pretty non-trivial for many developers (and thus, eventually, distros). Even if you don't buy that reasoning, it's just not very common to use non-glibc on most common distros. ... and honestly, I should probably just have been more explicit about the absurdity of comparing "hello world". That would sort of agree with the OP's post, but not for the same reason. I think reasons are important. [1] ... but then you end up with discussions about the importance of locales, nsswitch, etc. etc. Even though I didn't bring it up, it necessitated this footnote. You see what I mean?