Comment by shortrounddev2
3 years ago
Sure but with this you get all the other improved core utils like sed, etc. GNU utils just blow BSD/macOS out of the water. Personally, macOS seems to me like a half baked development platform in general
3 years ago
Sure but with this you get all the other improved core utils like sed, etc. GNU utils just blow BSD/macOS out of the water. Personally, macOS seems to me like a half baked development platform in general
Some of us don't want all of GNU's utilities; just on an as-needed basis. They're not as needed as they once were.
Many of these utilities have been rewritten in Rust and have more modern features and are faster.
For example, instead of ls, I use exa [1]. Or ripgrep [2] instead of grep. sd [3] instead of sed.
[1]: https://github.com/ogham/exa
[2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
[3]: https://github.com/chmln/sd