@ryo @charliebrownau @furgar
"Anyone can rewrite the same utilities in far fewer lines of code"
"Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD did it"
I interpreted that as "they rewrote GNU in fewer lines of code".

"GNU core utilities are bloated though"
The downside of them being bloated that I heard the post about is speed, which is why I talked about speed. Portability is another issue, but most of the other utils have their own unique options as well, so you have to go out of your way to use POSIX, in all of its horribleness, if you want the portability (though in the case of shells, extended shells are no better, holy shit are bash scripts awful). But they should be faster. And more secure, I guess.