The beauty of finished software

fer0n@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.org – 52 points –
The beauty of finished software
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Also one of the beauty of the Unix philosophy.

I'd rather have a bundle of small, specialized utilities, each with a specific scope that I can then combine into a workflow than a one-size fits all software.

Software like ffmpeg, curl, awk, etc can accomplish so much when combined together.

ffmpeg is actually a bad example in this case, it's evolved so much and including way more stuff than what it was originally set out to do. Like sure it doesn't come with UI but commercial/FOSS software all use it one way or another.

Haha, I wanted to object to that one as well :)

If you ever had to find an error in the ffmpeg debug log, you would not say this software is finished...