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I have written a bunch of nu and: no dot method syntax means you need to browse documentation for literally everything. So much worse than your average programm
by cormacrelf 4y ago
I have written a bunch of nu and: no dot method syntax means you need to browse documentation for literally everything. So much worse than your average programming language, which takes the data type + you enter a dot = it suggests all the relevant methods. The Nu docs are better than they were a few years ago but as far as I can tell they keep changing command names, having subtle changes of behaviour for commands with the same name but apparently different implementations for different data types, having a crucial command listed under a weird name that takes an hour to find, etc etc. If I need to wrangle some JSON again I think I’ll just use Python.
- enoch2090 4y agoThat sounds really promising though, you convinced me. Will have a try.
- ripley12 4y ago> subtle changes of behaviour for commands with the same name but apparently different implementations for different data types This was one of the biggest problems with Nu's dataframe functionality; it should be resolved now that we no longer ship with dataframes by default. Totally agreed on dot method being nice for discoverability, that's something we need to do better on.