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I don't understand this recent trend of modernizing things just for the sake of modernity. Old ideas are often the best ones, why shove everything down the dra
by blackbear_ 6y ago
I don't understand this recent trend of modernizing things just for the sake of modernity.
Old ideas are often the best ones, why shove everything down the drain every five years?
- AA-BA-94-2A-56 6y agoAccessibility. You and I would probably use the CLI versions of these bash scripts. But my parents or friends would probably not use one unless it came with a GUI. Getting them interested in running shell scripts rather than purchasing expensive apps can only be a good thing.
- txutxu 6y agoI think the title is misleading. There was xdialog 20 years ago. And libnotify has like 15 years too. I understand "modern bash" as in any other scripting or programming language: It's about what caveats of the language quirks, the optimizations and the failure scenarios, that you solve with your code conventions, which people didn't use to use, some years ago. Change things for the sake of having something "newer" available for me, is something I try to avoid at all levels of my life.
- kps 6y ago`tksh` (ksh93 plus Tk widgets) 25 years ago.