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Jujutsu for everyone

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436 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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paradox460 ◴[31 Aug 25 16:24 UTC] No.45084388[source]▶
I've been enjoying JJ recently, after giving it another try. I'd tried it when it was new, and the sharp corners were still a bit too sharp for my liking.

JJ seems to be part of a new "era" of tooling that's just really good. I mused about this a bit in a blog post:

https://pdx.su/blog/2025-08-13-the-quiet-software-tooling-re...

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1. syklemil ◴[02 Sep 25 12:03 UTC] No.45101982[source]▶
re: `fd` I also find it a lot better to do something like `fd -e py -X ruff format` than `find -name '*.py' -exec ruff format {} +`.

Part of it is that `find` seems to come from before we standardized on `--foo --bar` having an equivalent in `-fb`, and the nagging about some flags being positional, but also just the general syntax of their `-exec`, which _requires_ the `{}` to be present, but it can only ever be in one position for the `+` variant.

My one nag about `fd` is that it has two optional positional arguments, so the way I use it I sometimes wind up with `fd -e $ext "" /path/to/search`. (`fd -e $ext --search-path /path/to/search` might be a clearer alternative I should habituate myself to.)

IME positional arguments are always less ergonomic than flags/options, _especially_ if there are more than one of them and they're not mandatory.

But they're still better than the `find` syntax.