Tools for 2025
AI summary of the linked articleSamuel Hierholzer's January 2025 post recommends three tools he believes should replace current standards: Oils, Radicle and Simplex Chat. Oils is a reimplementation of Bash with an incremental upgrade path, and he says its Bash-compatible part is in "late beta" with a 1.0 release targeted for 2025. Radicle is a decentralized git hosting tool that he calls superior to GitLab and GitHub because it is fully decentralized and federated. He describes Simplex Chat's reusable and one-time addresses as a model that should replace or inspire email. |
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4 comments   Well, if you've been using shells for years, and still have to look up the syntax for … let's say if/while statements … every time you need to create a bash script, there appears to be a problem. Haha, I usually don‘t use this on purpose, so fair point. But I also think that sometimes the interfaces for CLI tools are all too scattered and inconsistent, and some tools are plain bad too, or overly complicated. For example I‘ve not found a consistent pattern for piping stuff, with lines too, and some of the really important tools like sed are hard to use etc. Actually before GPT, I used to maintain this list of useful commands: https://github.com/TimDaub/commands Now that we have ChatGPT though, I hardly ever struggle to use bash etc True, so what we are basically waiting for is a shell with built-in model and data-orientation (like nushell). Whether the result will be called a shell or an agent is probably more an indicator of its conversational mode. |
