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Also feature complete software that is regularly used by lots of people, but nobody complains about, because devs don't mess with it anymore. Think ls, grep, ye

• oblio 7y ago
  Devs can't mess with it anymore, you mean? There's a myriad alternatives to ls, grep, etc. Dunno about alternatives to yes, maybe there's a si/oui/da out there? :) Sometimes the alternatives are considered superior to the originals (ripgrep) but the originals are just fossilized in place. In 2019 I don't even think we'd be able to have less as the pager instead of more, because we're so conservative about universals defaults, it's sad.
  • Kaiyou 7y ago
    Well, sure. There are alternatives, but the original software stands as it is and is available out of the box. It's really useful to learn once and then use everywhere.
• ses1984 7y ago
  I will happily complain about grep. My complaints might not be valid but I'll happily do it. I hate that bsd and gnu grep are different. I can never remember when and which flag I need to pass when my expression has stuff in it the default can't handle. I don't like that it's slower than alternatives like ag. I wish it would automatically handle compressed data. Also the saying is not as pithy if you add more kinds of software.