| ▲ | Chinjut 6 hours ago |
| The "Everything is text, do everything via text" philosophy has its advantages, and also its disadvantages. |
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| ▲ | usr1106 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Like the von Neumann architecture. Your data can be misused as code. Don't see that we get rid of either command lines in text or von Neumann any time soon. |
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| ▲ | eviks 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What are the advantages over structured text? |
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| ▲ | majewsky 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Access to a well-established set of tools for operating on unstructured text (coreutils, grep, sed, awk, etc.). | | |
| ▲ | eviks 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's not the benefit of text, just adoption. All these tools could've just as well grown to be popular with a proper format, and your point would be exactly the same | | |
| ▲ | psd1 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You're damned right - much better is possible than the gnu tools. I'm one of the savages using pwsh on Linux (the other two are still on reddit). I have no need for sed/awk ascii salad, and jq can fuck off into the far distance. |
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