Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.
WordStar 4.0
As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”.
Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it:
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.
Also one of the beauty of the Unix philosophy.
I’d rather have a bundle of small, specialized utilities, each with a specific scope that I can then combine into a workflow than a one-size fits all software.
Software like
ffmpeg,curl,awk, etc can accomplish so much when combined together.ffmpeg is actually a bad example in this case, it’s evolved so much and including way more stuff than what it was originally set out to do. Like sure it doesn’t come with UI but commercial/FOSS software all use it one way or another.
Haha, I wanted to object to that one as well :)
If you ever had to find an error in the ffmpeg debug log, you would not say this software is finished…
Also https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1721275669336707152
Dang, it’s gonna eat the CPU util even better now? I hope this can be implemented for better and faster scrubbing/stepping experience.(both VLC and Shotcut)