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giov4 5 hours ago

On a second thought I think that the effort in trying to find a shell uncomfortability problem and trying to solve it with a "wrapped workaround" still represents positive effort and should be supported and fostered without jumping directly in 90's like rtfm mode.

especially in the case of a younger profile, learning and putting dev effort, even if vibed or redundant, its still effort and a learning activity!

https://github.com/wallach-game

so I support this even if the result and problem solving can be less significant

Dibby053 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's possible the tool is useless and a consequence of not reading the manual, but it could just be the tool is nice but the examples are too simplistic.

In any case, toxicity aside, publishing a command line project and having someone dismiss the examples with shell oneliners is also a valuable lesson, and I don't think it will make him a worse developer.

giov4 4 hours ago | parent [-]

that's what I also thought when I saw the pull request, that it could be a useful lecture.

But again the usefulness of the final tool should not compromise appreciation of effort and learning.

Unless the tool targets, claims or pretends to be the best, final and universal solution to such problem.

I believe it isn't, I will still fall back to my bash memories, I will not need, install and use this tool, I will not need, install or use custom shells. The effort wasted in re-aligning my brain to a tool change would superseed instantly the few second effort needed to reach the needed bash one-liner.

Also, didn't you also feel good and amazed when completing a very long and nested working one-liner? wasn't that orgasmic? :D