Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?

[Alex Corcoles]

On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 12:00 -0500, emacs-devel-request@gnu.org wrote:
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Message-ID: <87edh0k2jf.fsf@dataswamp.org>
>    Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere
>    language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter
>    or virtual machine. [1]
> Sounds interesting!
> I wonder how they do that?

If I understand correctly, they found a way to make something that fits
all executable formats that major OSs support, plus they embed a zip
with binaries and dependencies (e.g. parts of /usr/ for Emacs), plus
they even convinced the POSIX stewards to loosen up the definition of
what's an executable. Plus a new libc...

> > Even though Cosmopolitan can be considered controversial
> 
> Why is it controversial?

I'm not entirely sure their means to achieve their objectives are
"clean". Also, it's yet another libc. Some people I've discussed the
idea with were a bit hostile towards it.

Cheers,

Álex