> The problem is that everyone is doing their own thing instead of coming up with a common standard I mean, there is a reason XKCD 927 is the most quoted to th

> The problem is that everyone is doing their own thing instead of coming up with a common standard I mean, there is a reason XKCD 927 is the most quoted to the point of attracting downvotes. It's pure cliché, so I wonder why you believe a common standard to rule them all is possible. There is only one sane approach in software: opinionated configuration. Yet the free-software world somehow still clings to the utopia of multiple, freely interchangeable choices, and all you get is half a dozen unmaintained backends and just one that actually works for a number of years when someone forgets 927 and decides to reinvent the wheel, badly.