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by ttgurney 1425 days ago
> Have there been? And why?

A few reasons why people might want to do this:

- Optimizing for small approachable codebase instead of featurefulness or performance (sbase)[1]

- Dissatisfaction with GPL (toybox)[2]

- Desire to replace C (described as an "unsafe" language) with Rust or Go (examples exist but I don't know of specific ones)

[1]: https://core.suckless.org/sbase/

[2]: https://landley.net/toybox/