alt Hacker NewsIs there anyone feeling that Pandoc is ever increasingly bloated? I have used Lua filters a decade ago [1] and the current documentation is nothing like my memories. I'm not even sure that how much of Lua scripts remain compatible across different Pandoc versions.
[1] https://github.com/mearie/mearie.github.io/blob/source/res/w...
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a1o • today at 11:31 AM
We use it for seven years and it still runs fine when we update Pandoc - we usually always update things. I don’t remember anything about the docs, so not sure what changed.
fwip • today at 1:34 PM
I might be worried if it wasn't pandoc. It's always been bulletproof for me.
With a tagline of "a universal document converter" it is almost a guarantee to become a complicated program but how much of it is being used for any single conversion?
Two more examples:
Rclone is "bloated" but it needs to be in order to fulfill its purpose.
ZFS is "bloated" because it combines volumes and filesystems but breaking the Unix philosophy also enables a different kind of synergy and simplicity elsewhere.