Re:Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
by selfhoster11 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:10PM
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You see traditional Unix/GNU programs as working well and interacting will. I see a programming paradigm designed for six-char identifiers, not designed for whitespaces and punctuation in names, running in something that emulates a physical terminal that emulated a paper-based terminal. Terseness is there, but ergonomics of use for non-utter-experts could be improved.
I think that the shell paradigm could be so much better. If there's a momentum to make a change from that, I'll jump on the bandwagon. Any change is better than the current state of the shell.
Re:Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
by lakecresva on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:17PM
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Nushell has a 'to json' command. The tables are just nice to look at, it's not a data format they're expecting people to parse.
This goes against the philosophy explicitly mentioned in OP's article. E.g. avoid tabular formats.
This is systemd against init again. A powerful, but overreaching shell that becomes unreplaceable and bloated with concerns. In constrast, traditional *nix/GNU programs work well, and interact well, in every shell.