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Thanks much and keep the same heading please! I really enjoy using tools that have matured and become good enough that there's no longer any major need for new
by yason 5y ago
Thanks much and keep the same heading please! I really enjoy using tools that have matured and become good enough that there's no longer any major need for new features — and where nothing is added just for the sake of "improvement". I personally haven't had a single thing in Mosh I would've wanted to add to it, and I'm glad nothing has been added either.
A lot of Unix tools are like that. They do what they were written to do and that's the scope they're sticking with. It's fine if, maybe once in five or ten years, some support is added for a thing that grew outside the tool itself, such as interfacing a new system component. This conservative development might be a trait of the less-flashy command-line world.
In contrast, the desktop is full of programs that were in that good phase once but then development continued further, adding satellite features that just make the program worse until it's unusable even for the original purpose. Why not write another program to do the new things then, instead of packing everything into a single package? I don't know.
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- j1elo 5y agoI concur, but at the same time have a counterpoint. It always trips me how I can user Perl regex for powerful searching in grep, but then these are somehow not available in sed. The Extended syntax it has is not the same, still too verbose in comparison