Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Should You Ever Replace Core Linux Utils u0026 Software?" video.

  1. That's good, since ripgrep is still missing basic functionality.
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  2. Yeah, like 20 or 30 years ago, so that's not exactly a valid example.
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  3.  @GafftheHorse  Given that a significant amount of people still use screen and vim, the time does kind of matter. Very few, if any, use a straight up Bourne shell as a daily driver.
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  4. I was with you until you said ripgrep. It's missing basic functionality that it should have, and even claims to have, but just doesn't. Such as PCRE. It tries, but fails to correctly interpret and yield anything even resembling a valid result.
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  5.  @vladlu6362  Faster doesn't mean much if it can't do what you want. In particular, yield a correct result. And no, they aren't all POSIX compliant, not that I personally care about such things, others might.
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  6. I'm all for adding tools, but they have to actually add something. Merely looking pretty isn't enough. Want colors? Well, for a good number of years ls has had --color=auto, which will disable color when piping, which is a good thing, and display it when directly to a terminal. Grep has been able to colorize matches for a while now and likewise disables that for piping, which again is a good thing. Want extra functionality? Well, that's a whole other ball of wax. I keep getting recommended to alternatives that either match the functionality of a pre-existing program but with a different way of operating. That's perfectly fine for someone who doesn't know how the old tools work, but it won't be a transferable skill and what's the point of writing new code that hasn't had 20 years of debugging work when the old program already works and has been debugged thoroughly. If someone wants to create an alternative, I say great, but add functionality and don't remove any. Programs like ripgrep irk me because they take away functionality while adding it. I don't care if they want to have different flags, that's fine, but not everything needs to be rewritten in Rust only to be missing functionality. If someone actually comes up with a cogent argument, I'd love to hear it. I doubt anyone will, and instead I await the vicious attacks from Rustaceans who refuse to be wrong.
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