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Honest question, if POSIX is not relevant anymore, why haven't wee seen a user-friendly set of command line tools come out yet?
by phil294 5y ago
Honest question, if POSIX is not relevant anymore, why haven't wee seen a user-friendly set of command line tools come out yet?
- effie 5y agoPOSIX isn't very relevant, but the set of basic Linux tools with generally expected features and behaviour is. The difference is that the latter evolves. For example, when GNU tools appeared, people started to prefer them to POSIX tools, because the GNU tools had useful extensions. POSIX never catched up. So we have seen more friendlier set of tools than POSIX would force on us, but it was evolution, not revolution. Why, maybe because people see value in continuity and acquired knowledge and don't want to start using obscure new tools like ag or exa, even if they could be superior.