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Abbie Normal

An interesting successful (and contemporary) non GNU project is jq

jqlang.github.io/jq/

their homepage explicitly mentions sed, awk and grep

So they know the GNU userland tools

I wonder how comes jq is not a GNU project

jqlang.github.iojq

@abbienormal because they don’t want to? Just cause you know sed, her and ask doesn’t mean that you refer to the GNU versions. There is a thing called Unix, and BSD, and ….

@amszmidt

Ah so they don't want to

Of course! How could I not think of this possibility ?

I wonder why they didn't want to though 🤔