alt Hacker News> Why does this require inventing lsr as an alternative to ls instead of making ls use io_uring?
Good luck getting that upstreamed and accepted. The more foundational the tools (and GNU coreutils definitely is foundational), the more difficult that process will be.
Releasing a standalone utility makes iteration much faster, partially because one is not bound to the release cycles of distributions.
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> Releasing a standalone utility makes iteration much faster, partially because one is not bound to the release cycles of distributions.
which certainly is a valid way or prioritizing. similarly, distros/users may prioritize stability, which means the theoretical improvement would now be stuck in not-used-land. the value of software appears when it's run, not when it's written
In the history of Unix its also a common way to propose tool replacements, for instance how `less` became `more` on most systems, or `vim` became the new `vi` which in its day became the new `ed`.