> These are all nice ideas that don't work very well in practice Yeah I agree with what you said about Powershell, but I think there is a balance. Some Unix pr

> These are all nice ideas that don't work very well in practice Yeah I agree with what you said about Powershell, but I think there is a balance. Some Unix programs have the ‘—-‘ style verbose flags, which is good. However, I would argue that the overall Unix-like environment fails all the time and causes massive, needless headaches, not just because of syntax/flag name lengths, but because libraries and config files are stored all over the place, depending on implicit features of the environment. I guess my main point is that Unix is like death by one thousand cuts; it is modular/composable/flexible, but in an extremely haphazard and janky way that makes developing in it painful in ways it doesn’t have to be. We haven’t really seen the ideas I was talking about in practice (e.g. optional typechecking between programs), so it’s not really clear how they’d end up working out. But there has to be a better way than the Unix way (as it is right now).