miniblog.

I frequently find myself running: $ slowish $ slowish | jq $ slowish | jq | grep I feel there must be a better way to build up pipelines incrementally without re-running. I could save each output to a file, but it's more verbose, and most of these tools have nicer output when stdout is a TTY.

It's weird how even pure languages tend to treat the Unix execution model as ambient state. Are there any PLs that define a main function like this? fn main(args, stdin, stdout, env) -> exit code

One interesting property of both stdin/stdout based REPLs and RPC based REPLs is that they need to support asynchronous events. In both these programs, I don't need to wait until the function is done to see the output printed. It's not sufficient to read-eval-wait-print-loop.