Genuine question: since these are
core utils, and probably used billions of times every day, is anyone actually going to switch to this version? I see that the
intention is for this to be a drop-in replacement, but some options and behaviours are still different.
To clarify, I'm not intending this as a negative comment. It's an impressive project, and aiming for cross-platform sharing of scripts seems a worthy goal. The graph of progress against the GNU test suite is neat and encouraging. However, I can't imagine anyone in Unixy lands moving to this - although I may be wrong there - so it feels like a "compatibility" project for MacOS and Windows. I'm not familiar with the situation on MacOS but how bad is the compatibility issue? Similarly, on Windows what's the situation with WSL or VMs or even Cygwin? Is performance the issue?
Do people actually want this, is there a market for it? It's got 17.8k stars so seemingly so? Again, I'm not intending to cast aspersions, just trying to understand the audience. This is clearly different from a "for the fun of it" side project.
To clarify, I'm not intending this as a negative comment. It's an impressive project, and aiming for cross-platform sharing of scripts seems a worthy goal. The graph of progress against the GNU test suite is neat and encouraging. However, I can't imagine anyone in Unixy lands moving to this - although I may be wrong there - so it feels like a "compatibility" project for MacOS and Windows. I'm not familiar with the situation on MacOS but how bad is the compatibility issue? Similarly, on Windows what's the situation with WSL or VMs or even Cygwin? Is performance the issue?
Do people actually want this, is there a market for it? It's got 17.8k stars so seemingly so? Again, I'm not intending to cast aspersions, just trying to understand the audience. This is clearly different from a "for the fun of it" side project.