@ed1conf netcat-traditional netcat-openbsd ed-taylors-version
@ed1conf bahahaha this is so niche

@gnomon

you knew I was trouble when I walked in

@ed1conf you're the monster on the hill
Too big to hang out¹, slowly lurching towards my favourite city
Pierced through the heart but never killed

¹: not literally though of course:

```
stat -c $'%s\t%n' $(readlink -f $(which emacs ed vim vi)) | sort -n
55744 /usr/bin/ed
3646968 /usr/bin/vim.basic
3646968 /usr/bin/vim.basic
31984816 /home/gnomon/bin/emacs-30.1
```

@ed1conf really? Such bad taste. I do not understand why...

@worik I think you're reading more into it than there is.

ed(1) is committed to operating purely on standard in/out rather than needing terminal control-sequences or ioctl(2) calls or GUI input/output libraries.