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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 10:07:33 JST mhoye

   Team, a question: who is doing interesting work on software _composability_ these days, and where do I find them?

   The last two really interesting ideas I've seen in this space are ysh and ... powershell.

   What's good?

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 10:07:32 JST mhoye

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     • Chris [list of emoji]

     @suetanvil If anybody but Microsoft had invented Powershell it would have taken over the world by now, but because it was invented by Microsoft nobody is allowed to learn anything or take any lessons from it.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 10:07:32 JST Rich Felker

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     • Chris [list of emoji]

     @mhoye @suetanvil No, powershell is hideous because it's hideous, not because Microsoft. The right way to compose is standardized data formats, not all kinds of weird linkages, object orientedness, IPC/RPC, etc.

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     Chris [list of emoji] (suetanvil@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 10:07:33 JST Chris [list of emoji]

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     @mhoye

     I'm of the opinion that Unix-style line-oriented text files are extremely underrated and nothing has yet improved on them.

     Of course, I'm also old and grumpy.