On 2025-07-07 at 15:38, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Binary package: libjava-websocket-java > > This is a > > " A barebones WebSocket client and server implementation written 100% in > Java" > > (probably meant: "barebone")
FWIW, I recognize "barebones" as correct usage in this context, and would recognize "barebone" as incorrect. Arguably "bare-bones" would be more correct than either, but the non-hyphenated compound is still an accepted thing in its own right. I understand the usage to be approximately, in this context, "an implementation of [foo] which is just the bare bones of it, with none of the extra functionality which could be added to such a thing to flesh it out". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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