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by roryrjb 7y ago
Similarly in my experience apt/deb packaging should be considered for this. There's already node packages in Debian/Ubuntu, to look at examples, it's well documented, tried and tested, they can be signed, and it's s
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I noticed this the other day. I think, at least to me it's pretty simple; open source should be funded but the terminal is not the place to display ads.
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Why the hell was this downvoted?
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by roryrjb 7y ago
True, but also when using shell for scripting, when you want to use an associative array or some other "advanced" feature, from a shell point of view, well then you should move on to a different language. So in the same sense in s
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Also goto being considered bad is already a very old idea. Yet it is still used, sparingly in the right places. Shell underpins a lot of stuff, it is tried and tested. Text is already structured, or can be, IFS, new lines, etc.
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I get it, but to clarify, and maybe it's to do with the work I do, I have no problem with current shells, I think they are great. As I learn more about them and use different features I like them more. This is my experience.
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I've now read a lot more of the comments, people are really excited about this, it has taken me a bit by surprise. There are a lot of comments in the vein of "bash sucks but it's everywhere". My dream shell is pdksh, whi
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I disagree. I'm not saying that everyone should think the way I do, I guess realistically all I mean is that when I'm confronted with a parsing issue in this context I just write a shell script. Ok, this can be taken as reinventin
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by roryrjb 7y ago
One downvote and counting. This is just my opinion. Let's crank this up a notch. Those advocating for more advanced interfaces are missing the point. Text is all you need, no graphics or objects or widgets, just text. I have no problem
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by roryrjb 7y ago
There's a lot of comments here already so I don't know if this has been addressed already, but I don't get this shell. It seems to be fixing a problem that doesn't exist, and a lot of comments are echoing it. Current she
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Beyond what sourcehut is providing, I would also upvote because of Drew (Sir_Cmpwn). I don't know him personally, but based on blog posts, HN comments and interaction via email, he seems to be very helpful and polite, my general impres
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I started using Android with the Orange San Francisco, as it was branded in the UK, "underneath" it was the ZTE Blade. It was a very cheap device, but you could unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery and a custom ROM, it
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Also discussed a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205876
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Two Weeks with Mir (2013)(markshuttleworth.com)
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by roryrjb 7y ago
GNU grep is fast as well but by default it doesn't ignore anything. Granted it's handy to have this configured out of the box, but I prefer to know and use the flags and perhaps write a shell script wrapper, and I find that practi
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Not to take away anything from the project, but for my particular workflow, the way I get the built in find to work for me is by doing this in vim: set errorformat+=%f, command! -nargs=+ FindAll cgete system('find . ' . \ join
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by roryrjb 7y ago
There's so much negativity in this thread. I think that a big part of Perl's decline is exactly because of people's attitudes. I don't actually write any Perl now, but to me it's a beautiful language, I always enjoy
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by roryrjb 7y ago
But why obnoxious? Do you know how old Perl is? Have you written shell scripts before? My point is, some of choices Larry and others made wouldn't necessarily be made today, but there's a history, a lineage, a reason for all of th
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Not to someone who doesn't know Perl. But this is the same for every language. No one should be picking up a new language and working with it if they don't know it. EDIT: To clarify, I mean there should never be the expectation th
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Perl is a general purpose programming language. The Perl interpreter and language are stable, it's not going anywhere soon. Perl and its syntax have been around a lot longer than most other languages and is very similar to C, C++, Java
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I very much enjoy watching Bryan Cantrill on YouTube, always interesting, informative and funny. All the best to him for whatever he does next. As an aside I feel (as in I don't really know I only get an impression) that Solaris with Z
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Yeah but the list specifically mentions C++, which I think is part of the reason why this category is hard. Python on the other hand is definitely more entry level friendly but it's still Qt. This should be emphasised.
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Not surprising at all that Ryan Air is being mentioned, only had bad experiences with them. Also is legroom really one word?
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by roryrjb 7y ago
You're being downvoted of course, BUT whilst JavaScript wasn't created for all this, and itself isn't to blame, the fact that big corporations have pushed the technology forward I think is telling. At the end of the day what
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by roryrjb 7y ago
He means the LTS's are Xorg not Wayland
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by roryrjb 7y ago
I agree, but in the same way, if the code is structured well in a visual way it could be as easy to read without syntax highlighting. I guess it all depends on how well you know the language and the code base. I guess I've got into a r
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by roryrjb 7y ago
The impression I got, and it's only an impression based on various blog posts, articles and mailing lists over the years, is that OpenBSD is the most secure operating system even though it's mostly programmed in C (and that they&#
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Really Perl 6 and Perl 5 are different languages. I think even maintainers see it as that, please correct me if I'm wrong. I believe there was a discussion about renaming Perl 6 to avoid this confusion.
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by roryrjb 7y ago
My favourite scripting language is POSIX shell. It is also my most used language in terms of different "projects" I write with it; most of these projects are very small and focused. I feel that shell programming is very misunderst
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by roryrjb 7y ago
Yes that's a good point. I also have a dotfiles repo and I actually go one step further in that most things are organised into Ansible roles, for my laptop locally and for remote machines if necessary. But as the other responses have s

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