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Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
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Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#12https://github.com/uiri/coreutils .>
While I'm not sure if he posts here, I used to work in the same group with Jim Meyering, who maintained/maintains coreutils. Great guy.
Anyway, he told some great stories of the complexities of POSIX, and what happens in Solaris when you have directories 20,000 lines deep (and how to do it efficently, and the fun of teaching various coreutils commands about SELinux). Lots of it gets surprisingly low level quick.
Coreutils is complex for many good reasons, so while these tools look all nice and clever, they are not dealing with alot of the same kinds of issues.
(I also recall some of the heck Ansible had to go through to deal with atomic moves, groking when something was on a NFS partition, and so on. Not the same thing, but small seemingly easy things get tricky quickly.)
Bottom line is appreciate those little tiny Unix utilities, a lot went into them even when you think they aren't doing a whole lot :)
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#13Forget the haters, this is awesome.
GNU started as GNU's Not Unix, reimplementing Unix userland for free. The people who are adamant about calling it GNU/Linux are, on some level, remembering that the userspace is historically a reimplementation.
Give me a busybox that I can 'go build' and that becomes really quite interesting.
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#14There is no reason to ever want to do this.
except to you know, learn stuff
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#15Why do Go programmers always want to redo everything? It's rare to see something actually new written in Go, proving that Go can do everything C can (except make shared libraries and produce small binary sizes) but not that it's actually better .
The same thing happens in Java… and Ruby… well, maybe every language.
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#16https://github.com/polegone/gonix/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=re... Goodbye, memory.
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Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#17the point being?
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#18Not meaning to bring up a Rust vs Go debate, but since there are a few comments claiming that this is a waste of time, I figured it's worth mentioning the Rust based re-implementation of coreutils:
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/
And another by suckless in plain C:
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#19There is no reason to ever want to do this.
I'm just doing this for fun and to learn about Go and Unix at the same time.
I am a beginner, and a lot of my code is inefficient and/or incomplete, but by putting it on the Internet I can get criticism and find out where I went wrong.
For instance, some of you have told me that the way I've been reading files is very inefficient, so now I'll try and do it the correct way.
Re: Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
#20Not meaning to bring up a Rust vs Go debate, but since there are a few comments claiming that this is a waste of time, I figured it's worth mentioning the Rust based re-implementation of coreutils: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ And another by suckless in plain C: http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/README
At least, Rust version has CLI options implemented