Does the efficiency of storage actually matter? Are you working on a constrained system like a microcontroller? Because if you’re working on regular software, supporting Unicode is waaaaaaaaaaay more valuable than 20% smaller text storage.
Ok… but that doesn’t answer my question. Where are you physically when you’re working on this that people are attacking exposed ports? I’m either at home or in the office, and in either case there’s an external firewall between me and any assholes who want to exploit exposed ports. Are your roommates or coworkers those kinds of assholes? Or are you sitting in a coffee shop or something?
What you’re comfortable with as a contributor is irrelevant. What matters is whether you understand the maintainers’ intent and whether the people you’re interacting with think you’re acting like a dick. Someone who’s bad at understanding how other people feel will likely be bad at predicting what behavior will come across as being a dick.
Not everyone has high emotional intelligence. There’s a fair bit of overlap between programmers/engineers and people on the spectrum. A good code of conduct effectively spells out how to avoid being a dick.
When yarn/react/next.js/amplify breaks in some new and idiotic way, Claude is helpful more often than not. Why spend hours googling and sifting through github/stack overflow/etc when Claude can tell me what option to tweak to fix it in a fraction of the time?
Does the efficiency of storage actually matter? Are you working on a constrained system like a microcontroller? Because if you’re working on regular software, supporting Unicode is waaaaaaaaaaay more valuable than 20% smaller text storage.