It frankly doesn't seem like a deprecation in the traditional sense.
tools like ls or grep are certainly showing their age, but that has also been their strength. The POSIX ecosystem comes in many flavors but I can always depend on it.
It’s not like I can ever expect to shell into any arbitrary system or container and expect to have exa/lsd/rg or any of these nice replacements available to me. My tooling needs to be somewhat more portable.
But if what the comment I replied to meant by "capable of maintaining them myself" was about having an organizational structure where they could become an official maintainer of the official project rather than needing to fork it if the owner becomes unavailable, then yep, that's a great point about these single-owner projects.
But my original interpretation was about the difficulty of maintaining the code. To me, these rust tools are a huge improvement in that way.
A timeless tautology.
Some things just are easy and pleasant. Caddy server, Cargo, ripgrep come to mind. Some things are easy only once you've learned them. No kidding!
Agreed that cargo has bugs and I hope it improves over time (granted: it is not at all new). But say what you want about cargo, at least it's an ethos!
Which ones gave you trouble?
> I saw a book entitled "Die GNU Autotools" and I thought "My feelings exactly". Turns out the book was in German.
https://twitter.com/timmartin2/status/23365017839599616
gnu autotools i suppose works for some projects, but wow does it seem to be completely annoying to use.
