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> I do believe most of Linux userland has to be rewritten though Why? I'm sympathetic to the argument that 2017 computing shouldn't be on the basis of 1970s U

> I do believe most of Linux userland has to be rewritten though Why? I'm sympathetic to the argument that 2017 computing shouldn't be on the basis of 1970s UNIX limitations and mindset, but changing that would require a lot more than just rewriting the user land applications, and would require a bigger re-think. But assuming that the shell's functionality is OK as it is, what's to be gained in a re-write?

pdimitar 9y ago
For one thing, piping being mostly text-friendly is limiting in many scenarios I stumbled upon. A modern shell should allow arbitrary objects to be piped and processed, much like the functional programming paradigma. The UNIX idea was and still is wonderful, but we're past the text-only thing. In any case, I feel (and I don't have tens of facts, I admit) we're dragged by the past for far too long. Others have documented their gripes with the current incarnation of Ops / sysadmin problems much better than I could. Here in HN (but I think years ago).