Thanks for taking the time to respond to all my points!
Unfortunately, I find this confirms all my fears.
Whether or not ripgrep, fd, sd, et al. have some bugs left in them or not, the fact remains, when they do work (which is 99%+ of the time for most users), they are significantly more pleasant to work with. More pleasant = more use = more eyes = the bugs get fixed in the long run (as GNU should know from it's history!).
I wish everyone all the best, but I really do see a lot of these tools going the way of X.org in the next 10 years. Or, more likely, the way of csh.
However, I will note that understanding the programs require some complex topics, specifically formal languages and automata. I am not entirely surprised that some of the documentation can be a bit difficult to understand.
And it has every right to be, when it is discussing these topics. But not polluting the global namespace and not using global variables is not an advanced request!
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Thanks for taking the time to respond to all my points!
Unfortunately, I find this confirms all my fears.
Whether or not ripgrep, fd, sd, et al. have some bugs left in them or not, the fact remains, when they do work (which is 99%+ of the time for most users), they are significantly more pleasant to work with. More pleasant = more use = more eyes = the bugs get fixed in the long run (as GNU should know from it's history!).
I wish everyone all the best, but I really do see a lot of these tools going the way of X.org in the next 10 years. Or, more likely, the way of csh.
And it has every right to be, when it is discussing these topics. But not polluting the global namespace and not using global variables is not an advanced request!