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by andoriyu 1910 days ago
You know, I agree that shipping the same damm Unicode table over and over is stupid.

However, if they were part of the OS sooner rather than later, certain OS vendors would have found a way to make them incompatible or distribute them separately and make the user explicitly install them. (if you play in Windows, how many times and how many versions of VC++ redistributable you had to install?)

I remember there were projects where I opted-in into writing my own parser (with Pest or nom) just to avoid depending on regex crate. Which is usually the biggest dependency in my projects.