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Also the maintainer's ground-up rewrite argument is very flimsy when they used chardet's test-data and freely admit to:

> I've been the primary maintainer and contributor to this project for >12 years

> I have had extensive exposure to the original codebase: I've been maintaining it for over a decade. A traditional clean-room approach involves a strict separation between people with knowledge of the original and people writing the new implementation, and that separation did not exist here.

> I reviewed, tested, and iterated on every piece of the result using Claude.

> I was deeply involved in designing, reviewing, and iterating on every aspect of it.