At times I feel hopeless for the future of our cybernetic world.
Can computing be fixed?
#9front is a great operating system... if you know (its own) C and its (great) userspace tools.
#Jehanne should be simpler (a toy so far, but even if complete it would stay simpler) but even if ignoring the huge amount of work wasted to port #GCC before it was turned to yet another weapon of #US imperialism, it still requires to learn a lot of glibberish.
Why in 2021 I have to explain my daughters what `grep` means? `cat`? `xargs`? `git`?¹
Why we still use cli arguments (argc, argv) instead of a proper and uniform command language pre-parsed by the kernel?
But the problem is deep.
At times, I despair. 😢
Because I see how this lead straight to a terrible dystopia for future generations.
But apparently, nobody care enough.
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1) Don't get me wrong: I like these software a lot and use them extensively everyday, but they are tools designed to maximize the productivity of an élite of experts, not to empower casual programmers.
@Shamar I would welcome a draft of aliases or new syntax per user language and a new shell. https://xon.sh is interesting and the various ctls, eg bluetoothctl.
I am ok keeping legacy around but I think technology needs 10, 15 or 20 year cycles where legacy is containerized, we should be lowering friction & the entry barrier for a usee to become technically competent whenever we can because:
Genius Simplifies. Ignorance Complicates.
Rust utils are also worth a look like fd, bat, exa, tealdeer and others.
@lorendias
I don't know.
My rule of thumb is: if it takes more than a month to be fully read and understand a software, it's broken beyond repair.
The more time, the more it's broken.
How broken is #Python? #Rust? #GCC?
I ported GCC to Jehanne, because I used to share your insight about legacy, isolation, containerization and substitution... but I'm not sure anymore.