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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century - Brazil's Blog

https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2019/11/26/bringing-the-unix-philosophy-to-the-21st-century/ · JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.

Tilman 4 Comments
Monday 23. Aug 2021

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Yes! Having a standard, relatively simple, and human readable format for structured data would make a lot of things easier 👍

Tilman
Monday 23. Aug 2021

(Next level: the shell understands the json and formats it for you in a nice way)

Tilman
Monday 23. Aug 2021

Also thinking about how something like this can tie in with a strongly typed OS. The problem with strongly typing the OS always seems to be that you need to do a lot of design up front (while the stringly typed stuff can grow over time).

Tilman
Monday 23. Aug 2021

Related: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2012-06-06-linux-cli-apps-should-have-a-json-flag

Tilman
Monday 23. Aug 2021
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