I think we may be on the edge of that transformative moment though.

I had spent 2 hours yesterday trying to sort CSV lines in bash. Decided to do so even though I have a nice strongly typed framework to manage tuples, which is slower than bash.

I always forget that the -k argument requires 2 numbers if you want to sort by only one column.

Then LC_ALL.

These are not the things that are so easy to debug against.

So in the end it would have been faster to use Python.

There’s xsv-rs, but it doesn’t provide the same semantics or power I have in the framework.

Point is, I think there’s some space for novelty in UNIX tools. Especially given the research in DSLs for defining the transformations of tuples.