Comment by TylerE
2 years ago
on a side note: I would argue that Unix-on-the-desktop for non-nerds was basically always a pipe dream (excluding highly locked down things like a chromebook), and indeed the unix philosophy itself doomed it. Lots of tiny tools chained together doesn't really translate to a GUI paradigm.
It barely translates to a CLI. awk, cut, and sort all set the delimiter differently.
For sure. Figured that was too much of a sacred cow.
I wonder what a clean room user space might look like. Maybe the fish guys could write it. They clearly have some interesting ideas for dragging the shell into this millennium.