Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around the usecase for Julia

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@ninjaaron

What’s the actual usecase for writing to stdin and reading from the stdout of the same command or pipeline inside of a Julia script?

My InteractiveCodeSearch.jl is one of the examples that needs that. Another example I’ve seen in the wild is the SVG renderer for VegaLite.jl.

@ninjaaron

Using a process as a filter inside of a Julia/Python/Ruby/Perl script is fairly rare and sort of inelegant, since these languages are perfectly capable of doing their own text filtering.

I agree this for grep and sed but there are non-trivial APIs provided as CLIs like I just mentioned. Piping is a good “RPC” for simple things. It’s nice to be good at it.