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Chicken and egg problem. People use sh/bash because it is everywhere and standard. Requires energy to justify using an objectively superior tool if it is not de
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
Chicken and egg problem. People use sh/bash because it is everywhere and standard. Requires energy to justify using an objectively superior tool if it is not default installed.
I would love if I could count on Just, fish, ripgrep, or any other multitude of tools that improve upon these CLI apis that were invented ad hoc and ossified in the 70s. Paved a lot of cow paths.
- dolmen 2y agoPerl is everywhere, standard (there is a single implementation, with a strong culture of backward compatibility) and an objectively superior tool.