> If you're following such and such standards that says it should go to stdout, it should go to stdout though. I don't take that as a given. This is being peda

> If you're following such and such standards that says it should go to stdout, it should go to stdout though. I don't take that as a given. This is being pedantic. If 99% of programs operate a certain way (GNU coreutils or their BSD equivalent), while not dogma, it becomes convention. You need a good reason to break convention than whatever rationalisation you seem to have against it. The comment in the linked github issue does not present any advantage to using stderr (lack of buffering, really?) yet they completely ignore convention. Quit being fancy, be a good GNU/BSD citizen.