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I think it would be cool if a project had a self-imposed token count limit. The project would never be allowed to grow more than X tokens long.

Then you can guarantee the project is small and haiku-like forever!

LWIP started off small, and it grew...

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The "smol" in "smoltcp" is mostly talking about the internal architecture and exposed API. For example, it will never support true zero-copy sockets, because the API burden due to restricting itself to safe Rust is too high.

I don't think any TCP/IP implementation is going to be "haiku-like", the protocol stack is way too messy.

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