I feel we're witnessing a resurgence of interest in 'nix default programs such as `sed` and `awk` in part because LLMs make it so much easier to get started in them, and because they really do exist everywhere you might look. (The fact they were designed to be performant in bygone decades and are super-performant now as a result is also nice!)
There is just something incredibly freeing about knowing you can sit down at a freshly-reinstalled box and do productive work without having to install a single thing on the box itself first.
There is just something incredibly freeing about knowing you can sit down at a freshly-reinstalled box and do productive work without having to install a single thing on the box itself first.
EDIT: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/what-programm... might be of interest if you want to know what you can work with right out of the box on Debian 12. Other distros might differ.