Re:Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Nat...
by mschuster91 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:52PM
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> It leads to things like Homebrew (early on, at least) completely taking over and breaking /usr/local
Fully agree with you, but oh well, most if not everything is available on Macports anyway.
> There are an enormous number of tools out there that only exist because people don't know how to chain together basic 1970s Unix text-processing tools in a pipeline.
Speed. A specialized tool you need often beats manually wrangling the dozen or so Unix tools you need to replace it, plus many Good Options are only available on the GNU/Linux coreutils and don't work on Macs (sed -i, my most common annoyance) or busybox.
Fully agree with you, but oh well, most if not everything is available on Macports anyway.
> There are an enormous number of tools out there that only exist because people don't know how to chain together basic 1970s Unix text-processing tools in a pipeline.
Speed. A specialized tool you need often beats manually wrangling the dozen or so Unix tools you need to replace it, plus many Good Options are only available on the GNU/Linux coreutils and don't work on Macs (sed -i, my most common annoyance) or busybox.