hackery
Noun
Meaning
A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.
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So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.
It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery.
All of this has been done for the benefit of the larger Node community, whether your use- cases for Node are for enterprise deployments, front-end toolchains, hardware hackery, client-side apps, or something out of the box.
Unfortunately, the hackery comes obscured by a thick cloak of acronyms — it’s an NOPR from DOE about ISOs that contradicts NERC, FFS — so it takes a little unpacking.
The problem with this kind of hackery is that it has bred an outright animosity to recruiters in large parts of the tech world.