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id: 'idea--thule-alternatives'
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The big alternative I know of is
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- [termkit](https://github.com/unconed/TermKit), which is an interesting
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+ [TermKit](https://github.com/unconed/TermKit), which is an interesting
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experiment: but, to me, it's filled with far too many special cases
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and not enough nice primitives. For example, there's a special
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way of outputting a list of files (e.g. output from `ls`) but this
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Thule builds on top of this by having a standard set of building
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blocks, so that you no longer have the special-case "list of files",
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- but rather primitive building blocks like `list`s and `file`s.
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+ but rather primitive building blocks like `list` and `file`.
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Consider the output from `wc`: this also contains file references,
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but it additionally contains a table mapping those to values. In
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a TermKit-like setting, you'd have to come up with a new schema
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(say, `application/json; schema=termkit.wordcount`) that understands
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- which parts of the output are files and which aren't.
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+ which parts of the output are files and which aren't. This is
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+ particularly tricky for `wc`, because you want to have the
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+ final `total` row, which does _not_ contain a file. And what if
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+ other tools also print table-like structures? Can those be
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+ processed with the same tools?
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Thule aims to pull those low-level building blocks out, so the
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output from `ls` might give you a collection like
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