Post AYOMcusEs2c8kdAEQS by athas@freeradical.zone
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(DIR) Post #AYOMcusEs2c8kdAEQS by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T09:30:19Z
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Can anyone explain why command line tools moved away from the "silence is golden" paradigm? This toot inspired by Python's "black", which prints boldface, colour, sparkles, and a cake emoji when things go well.
(DIR) Post #AYOMcvf9w9kJCM3Ig4 by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T16:00:47Z
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@athas 1. I'm with you!2. I wonder if it's because a lot of them run in CI/CD now, such that it's painting logfiles with a wall of sparkles but not so often a console?
(DIR) Post #AYON1nUVSNSD5qvZ9k by athas@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T16:05:15Z
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@tek But that's even worse! You only read those logs when things go wrong, and it's much harder to find pertinent information when the output is a complete fruit salad. The kids are not alright on this one.
(DIR) Post #AYOO0jY0jV4wWlci8W by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-08-04T16:16:17Z
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@athas Fair point. And I'm all in on your premise! Run a command, wait 10 minutes, and come back to a shell prompt on the next line? Yay, it worked!