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Re:Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT by Jotalea on Monday October 06, 2025 @12:24AM (#45487627)
I agree. this tool feels like an all-in-one swiss knife. granted, it is useful. But it goes directly against one of the UNIX core values which is "do one thing and do it well". as well, including too much functionality in one single package will eventually bloat it, and there are many examples of this happening (windows, systemd, etc.).
Re:Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT by dtj1123 on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:46AM (#45488020)
I feel that the applicability of the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy scales with the frequency with which you expect to do that thing and the complexity of the task. In the case of a text editor or a VCS it obviously makes sense. In the case of tools that I use a couple times a year like these, having them all grouped together under a 'misc' application is exactly what I need in order to waste time fumbling through my installed apps trying to remember where I left the QR code generator.
Re:Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT by efskap on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:10AM (#45488459)
I see this more like `busybox`, where being a single binary is an implementation detail. The commands are still orthogonal and composable.