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@Tanuki On the contrary: they were greatly improved by the project in the 80s and 90s. The original UNIX tools only had a handful of single-letter options, no inline help, no color output...

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Not to mention , a marvel of compiler design, with multiple language frontends, portable to dozens of host platforms and targeting hundreds of architecture variants 🤩

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Bernie

Though the GNU project nowadays appears to be mostly fossilized around C and old UNIX-era standards.

Innovation in the terminal environment happens within the Rust and Go communities.

They build many nice tools, but they still lack the level of integration and coordination that got the GNU project at the core of every Linux and many non-Linux systems with glibc, bash, coreutils, gcc, binutils, make...

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