If I remember correctly, dietlibc was part of a whole bunch of DJB-fanboy releases by fefe way back when dinosaurs and qmail ruled the earth. Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging these days.
If I remember correctly it grew out of frustration with glibc size which turned into research into how to make a libc as small as possible. No DJB involved.
> Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging these days.
Latest release was last year and the changelog[1] suggests it was a group effort.
Neither for the author nor for DJB. I was on the mailing list when dietlibc and libowfat (the alternative, non-traditional, DJB-inspired core library) were created. Was an interesting time and I liked the philosophy way more than e.g. the whole 'suckless' stuff (which is more in the Plan 9 corner).
I don't regard "fanboy" as a derogatory term, by the way.
There was quite a lot of development and thoughts back then, but in recent years I hadn't heard a lot out of that corner, and in German circles I mostly saw von Leitner's name mentioned when it came to some digital rights thing (our various German and EU "privacy" laws).
> I don't regard "fanboy" as a derogatory term, by the way.
I do. Whenever I read "fanboy", I assume the author is at least no fan of the subject (in this case I assume you don't like DJB). Otherwise it would just be a "fan"... ?
