Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:43AM (#20305494)

As if the bash syntax for simple string manipulation and piping and quoting and escaping and even determining if a string is empty wasn't unnecessarily complex.

As I said, the "Unix Philosophy" of plugging together artificially limited tools by pipes is intellectually bankrupt (and terribly inefficient). That was my whole point.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by mixmastamyk on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:19PM (#20305917)

It is inefficient, but that doesn't matter much for interactive use. After a shell script reaches a dozen lines, it's time to port it to Python. If the job needs absolute performance you rewrite in a performant language instead.

I'm not sure why you are upset to be honest? What design would you prefer? This one seems to hit all use cases.

In another thread I mention that fish has math and string manipulation builtins.

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