CoreUtils implemented in pure JavaScript

Post by l1ambda » Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

faaef wrote: post #53

Apart from this being of questionable usability, why do people feel the need to solve every problem with (Node)JS? I can think about a ton of languages better suited for systems programming at the top of the hat.

Post by goldbrick » Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

throwaway2048 wrote: post #47

Smudge wrote: post #38

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Simpler is better. Cygwin is overkill unless you are trying to mimic your exact non-Windows environment, and it doesn't mix well with Windows' vanilla CMD environment. For those of us who want to be working with more Windows than UNIX, but who are used to standard coreutil commands, 1/100th the functionality of cygwin actually sounds kind of great! Not saying that the commands need to be written in JS, but it seems l…

node.js is not simple or even simpler

Post by frutiger » Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC

zbuttram wrote: post #85

elmigranto wrote: post #72

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I imagine most libraries has some common functions that ones from public API rely on (and of course some exports can be used within module itself). Let's say you never import `helperX` and `helperY` from a library, but you import `usefulFunction` which relies on `helperX`. How would webpack know to exclude `helperY` but not `helperX`? Unless it does some kind of code analysis, or lib is split in "module per function"…

I believe they are doing code analysis, at least that's what the README for Rollup says: > Rollup statically analyses your code, and your dependencies, and includes the bare minimum in your bundle.

    var mod = {};
    module.foo = function () { return 42; };
    module.bar = function () { return -1; };

    module[Math.random() > 0.5 ? "foo" : "bar"]();

Post by recursive » Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

metalock wrote: post #100

recursive wrote: post #69

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However, I already have it.

Yes, but - when you hit some bug or just need some specific combination of commands, there would be thousands posts on the web that explain how to do on unix that will work in Cygwin. Will they work in this environment?

Post by StreamBright » Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

pdpi wrote: post #30

cyphar wrote: post #7

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> UNIX shells suck. Javascript sucks. How could one implement a UNIX shell in Javascript and have it not suck? What do you mean by "UNIX shells suck"? I'm fairly sure most people would consider UNIX shells to be one of the bigger revolutions in computing.

Perhaps it's my own shortcoming, but for any given script I write, I find that, say, 20% of all my code is productive, and the remaining 80% is massaging the output of one tool into a shape that's compatible with the input of the next tool. Compare with the exprience of using Windows PowerShell where cmdlets return objects and you can grab precisely the fields you want with minimum ceremony. Things are better now wit…