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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by pdpi on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:51AM (#27525997)
Ease of use and familiarity are different things. Tooling around rust really is easy, when the alternatives (for equivalent languages) are CMake, autotools, and the like.

As it stands, I can brew install ripgrep and it just works. I don’t need to know it’s written it rust. If, for some reason, homebrew (or whatever other package manager) is lagging behind and I need a new release now, cargo install is a much easier alternative compared to, again, other tools built in equivalent languages

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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by xpe on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:46AM (#27529109)
Indeed. Thank for you stating this so clearly.

The "ease of use" and "familiarity" distinction reminds me of talks by people such as Rich Hickey who distinguish "simple" and "easy":

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

> Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.

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