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I realize it's nice to use short names for applications, but couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising de

by _flux 2y ago

I realize it's nice to use short names for applications, but couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising developer memory more than strictly required. I have 42 two-character binaries in /usr/bin. Of course, that's still only about 5% of the available two-alphabet names.. The developer can always choose to use a shorted local alias for commonly used tools. That being said, I wonder if this is much better than difftastic that is more general purpose, but tree-aware? I suppose this one wouldn't care about JSON dictionary key ordering, at least.

keybored 2y ago
The real headscratchers are the tools that have a proper name, a shortened name, and a command name: - Stacked Git - Shortened: stgit - Command: stg Lots of “stgit: command not found” ensues.
mejutoco 2y ago
You have a point of course, but I find it funny that the path is not /users/binaries and, instead, it is a similar abbreviation. In a way, it is a sort of seo race for tool devs.
- spencerchubb 2y ago
  usr stands for user system resources
  - conkeisterdoor 2y ago
    TIL after so many years that /usr isn't an abbreviation of "user". "UNIX/user system resources" makes a lot more sense in retrospect. Guess I should have RTFM a long time ago!
    - dunham 2y ago
      It looks like that's a newer interpretation than the original: > As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended. https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.htm...
  - Tsiklon 2y ago
    This is a backronym. /usr is the original user home directory location on classic unix. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html
josephburnett 2y ago
> couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising developer memory more than strictly required. Yeah, in retrospect I should have given this a longer name. I was going for a natural fit with `jq`. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > I wonder if this is much better than difftastic that is more general purpose, but tree-aware? There are quite a few good tree-aware JSON diff tools out there. But I wanted one that could also be used for patching. I've tried to maintain the invariant that all diffs can be applied as patches without losing anything. And I also wanted better set (and multi-set) semantics, since the ordering of JSON arrays so often isn't important.

by _flux 2y ago

keybored 2y ago

The real headscratchers are the tools that have a proper name, a shortened name, and a command name: - Stacked Git - Shortened: stgit - Command: stg Lots of “stgit: command not found” ensues.

mejutoco 2y ago

You have a point of course, but I find it funny that the path is not /users/binaries and, instead, it is a similar abbreviation. In a way, it is a sort of seo race for tool devs.

spencerchubb 2y ago
usr stands for user system resources
- conkeisterdoor 2y ago
  TIL after so many years that /usr isn't an abbreviation of "user". "UNIX/user system resources" makes a lot more sense in retrospect. Guess I should have RTFM a long time ago!
  - dunham 2y ago
    It looks like that's a newer interpretation than the original: > As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended. https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.htm...
- Tsiklon 2y ago
  This is a backronym. /usr is the original user home directory location on classic unix. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html

josephburnett 2y ago

> couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising developer memory more than strictly required. Yeah, in retrospect I should have given this a longer name. I was going for a natural fit with `jq`. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > I wonder if this is much better than difftastic that is more general purpose, but tree-aware? There are quite a few good tree-aware JSON diff tools out there. But I wanted one that could also be used for patching. I've tried to maintain the invariant that all diffs can be applied as patches without losing anything. And I also wanted better set (and multi-set) semantics, since the ordering of JSON arrays so often isn't important.