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I'm not familiar with Fuschia's FIDL system, but it looks intriguing. Though it's still pretty hard to beat using pipes and cut to ingest a line-oriented stream

I'm not familiar with Fuschia's FIDL system, but it looks intriguing. Though it's still pretty hard to beat using pipes and cut to ingest a line-oriented stream of text. If Fuchsia had beaten out UNIX in some parallel universe, it does look like we'd all be happier. Ha. Runit is pretty good - it's the default in the Void Linux OS that I use on my personal machines. Definitely good enough for a modern desktop system, though it's not aimed at the same crowd as Ubuntu and Fedora.

IshKebab 3y ago
> Though it's still pretty hard to beat using pipes and cut to ingest a line-oriented stream of text. Well, a) that's fine for interactive use but awful for unattended use because it's so likely to go wrong, and b) it is actually pretty easy to beat that - JSON and jq is much easier, nicer and more reliable. Or Nushell/Powershell structured pipes. Or an autogenerated properly typed Python interface. Take a look at /proc/self/status before you tell me you'd rather use some awk/cut monstrosity than `jq .ppid`. > If Fuchsia had beaten out UNIX in some parallel universe, it does look like we'd all be happier. I'd definitely be happier - I wouldn't spend so much time debugging why Linux stuff breaks!