The second article is not saying that Alpine is right, only that it behaves differently. "Reasonable" stack size is pretty subjective - many workflows won't car

The second article is not saying that Alpine is right, only that it behaves differently. "Reasonable" stack size is pretty subjective - many workflows won't care about stack allocating megabytes at a time and could save RAM from having a smaller stack size. The article is pretty informative with workarounds for this situation. There's no need to attack the author about this, especially from a throwaway.