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It's not madness, it's the price of flexibility and one that I am personally gladly to pay. I am forced to use Windows and pre-approved tooling daily at work, y
by bragh 6y ago
It's not madness, it's the price of flexibility and one that I am personally gladly to pay. I am forced to use Windows and pre-approved tooling daily at work, you can't imagine what a relief it is to use Linux at home, where you can chain together the exact programs that you want and make them work the way you want.
- alkonaut 6y agoI don’t mind that programs provide output that can be chained and so on, but what annoys me is when portable (cross platform) apps m, like e.g git, doesn’t provide core functionality without the assumption of a specific environment. It's fine to let the user sort the outputs using an external program. But if the sorting is so commonly required that it's a "core feature" then perhaps the program itself should do it. Since most developers use windows, most windows users use cmd as their shell and git is the most common vcs around, it wouldn’t surprise me if the most common environment for git is ... Windows cmd. Where there is no sed/grep/awk etc!
- sixbrx 6y agoI'd suppose most WIndows users using git either use it through a UI (e.g.Intellij's), or else in the bash shell for Windows that comes with the git package for windows. Starting that bash shell is easier than mucking with the path and the old cmd.exe is awefull in so many ways, anyway.