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Unix pipes make it hard to have a large graph. Like most pipes take one thing and produce one thing. You don’t really have complex data flow graphs.
by adamnemecek 6y ago
Unix pipes make it hard to have a large graph. Like most pipes take one thing and produce one thing. You don’t really have complex data flow graphs.
- taeric 6y agoThough, this really kind of fits with the metaphor. Pipes typically just send liquid. You could have a conduit connector to join a bunch of wires/signals, I suppose. But, realistically, that is a mess always.
- adamnemecek 6y agoRight but you generally have a complex pipe system even with liquids. Sewers send waste to a particular processing facility. A node editor makes it somewhat less messy.
- lispweeniejr 6y agoyou aren't wrong, but i wanted to point out that through `tee` and `cat` you can split or merge pipelines, and with FIFOs you can awkwardly create graph cycles