Evidently you did not read the original release or the top comment, but this has nothing to do with carriage return.
You replied 5 comments deep in a thread about zig intentionally annoying users by erroring out on something simple that every other program or library on windows deals with automatically.
But you're right, where possible I try to avoid Windows.
You're backpedaling now. Originally you were trying to rationalize someone intentionally releasing a broken program to troll people.
Evidently you did not read the original release or the top comment, but this has nothing to do with carriage return.
>Then why does every other language, text editor and text tool in existence deal with this single extra character?
On Windows, Emacs by default will save your files with linefeed and no carriage return, only when opening the file will it infer crlf, as it should.
But you're right, where possible I try to avoid Windows.