Did a bit of research and it looks like it might not be too much work to replace one of the more problematic dependencies in the code I've been working on lately with something that's a lot simpler. I'll have to do some work to prove that out, but it looks promising.
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The other nice thing about the alternative approach is that it would cut the download size of the binary builds roughly in half. It was already a lot smaller on that metric than less capable competing programs, but if I can make things work better and have an even smaller program I'd rather do that.
If I put that in along with other removed dependencies, it's a 62% reduction in binary size. I kind of wish I could get it down to "fits on a floppy" but that would be a lot more work than I want to put in right now.