[Aerbil313]

Yeah, this is nice but also sad. GNU coreutils is ancient at this point. I know this is probably critical to get user share for nushell and not enough dev resources etc. but I’d wish they were innovating on this front too with simpler and less bloated coreutils, as they are already completely changing the shell paradigm.

[lf-non]

It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition Yes?

People are free to experiment with alternative cli utils which are not burdened by backward compatibility while nushell also remains easily adoptable by users who are accustomed to coreutils.

[hnlmorg]

I agree. I’ve written about this before but this is what murex (1) does. It reimplements some of coreutils where there are benefits in doing so (eg sed, grep etc -like parsing of lists that are in formats other than flat lines of text. Such as JSON arrays)

Mutex does this by having these utilities named slightly different to their POSIX counterparts. So you can use all of the existing CLI tools completely but additionally have a bunch of new stuff too.

Far too many alt shells these days try to replace coreutils and that just creates friction in my opinion.

1. https://murex.rocks

[Aerbil313]

Well yeah, but there’s always something to forcing people to move on to the next thing. I know I’m asking for too much.

[abhinavk]

I agree. I also increasingly find myself using bat, ripgrep, eza etc even with zsh.