If a linux/unix was rewritten today, what would be different?

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  • cli-guidelines

    A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

    An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

  • go

    The Go programming language

    Ken also submitted this commit to Golang to, as the Git commit message states, spell it with an "e".

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • appvm

    Nix-based app VMs

    Isolation through virtual machines. Qubes OS is the prime example, also I like appvm a lot.

  • wondershaper

    Command-line utility for limiting an adapter's bandwidth

    You better never try something like the wondershaper with ifconfig ...

  • redox

    Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox

    Maybe it would look a bit like that : https://github.com/redox-os/redox ! :D

  • libconfini

    Yet another INI parser

  • toml

    Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

    TOML has basically every feature YAML does, except going deeper into tables is not good, but is possible. I really want to like it, but the current nesting situation sucks. And whats worse, there have been proposals to make it suck less bad, but it doesn't look promising. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/781

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • bubblewrap

    Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

    From the top of my head -- not exactly a container escape vulnerability, but still pretty bad: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/security/advisories/GHSA-j2qp-rvxj-43vj

  • nushell

    A new type of shell

    There's been some work on implementations for that. nushell deals with structured data and has been making a lot of progress

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