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> This does not make any sense. It's Unix-like because it feels old? It seems like the author thoroughly misses the point of unix philosophy.

Yea, I couldn't figure out what makes it Unix-like, either. I mean, which UNIX in particular? Solaris? AIX? HP-UX? Do you use UNIX commands to navigate it? Is there a shell or something? Kind of odd way to describe it.

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Usually when someone says something is unix-like, they mean it "embraces unix philosophy", which usually means something like it operates on stdin/stdout so it can be composed in a pipeline on the shell.

Which is why I was mislead in this case :)

Not just stdin and stdout, but lots of little tools that can be strung together in unique ways. Also text files rather than binary files for storage.

One tool per thing you want to do

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