From e05dc5c2ae3bd27204bdcd928d121c36d5b16035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melody Horn <melody@boringcactus.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:27:04 -0600
Subject: add some alternatives

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 README.md | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fed4ef..cdc5199 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ because [fuck](https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794)
 
 perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 
+"RIIR" here stands for "Rewrite It In Rust", used semi-ironically.
+
 ## 3dldf
 ## 8sync
 ## a2ps
@@ -28,12 +30,31 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## ballandpaddle
 ## barcode
 ## bash
+
+alternatives with varying degrees of compatibility:
+- there's dash and there's zsh and there's fish
+- [list via Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unix_shells)
+- [the Rust OS has a Rust shell, if you're into that](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/ion)
+- [PowerShell, but RIIR](https://www.nushell.sh/)
+
 ## bayonne
 ## bazaar
 ## bc
 ## behistun
 ## binutils
+
+for LD:
+- [LLD, the LLVM Linker](https://lld.llvm.org/)
+
+for AS:
+- [flat assembler](http://flatassembler.net/) (x86)
+- [nasm](https://www.nasm.us/) (x86)
+- if you try hard and believe in yourself, you can pretend LLVM IR counts as assembly
+
 ## bison
+
+- [Berkeley Yacc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Yacc)
+
 ## bool
 ## bpel2owfn
 ## c-graph
@@ -55,6 +76,10 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## config
 ## consensus
 ## coreutils
+
+- there's [BusyBox](https://www.busybox.net/) and [toybox](https://www.landley.net/toybox/)
+- [RIIR harder](https://github.com/uutils/coreutils)
+
 ## cpio
 ## cppi
 ## cssc
@@ -80,6 +105,14 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## edma
 ## electric
 ## emacs
+
+alternative implementations:
+- [list via Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Various_Emacs_editors)
+
+incompatible alternatives:
+- an IDE
+- [vi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi) etc
+
 ## emacs-muse
 ## emms
 ## enscript
@@ -87,6 +120,9 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## fdisk
 ## ferret
 ## findutils
+
+- [needs more Rust](https://github.com/uutils/findutils)
+
 ## fisicalab
 ## foliot
 ## fontopia
@@ -100,8 +136,16 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## gama
 ## garpd
 ## gawk
+
+- [the One True Awk](https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk)
+- [mawk](https://invisible-island.net/mawk/)
+
 ## gcal
 ## gcc
+
+- [clang](https://clang.llvm.org/)
+- [tcc](https://bellard.org/tcc/)
+
 ## gcide
 ## gcl
 ## gcompris
@@ -180,6 +224,10 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## grabcomics
 ## greg
 ## grep
+
+- [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
+- [ugrep](https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep)
+
 ## gretl
 ## groff
 ## grub
@@ -207,6 +255,9 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## gwl
 ## gxmessage
 ## gzip
+
+- apparently NetBSD has a gzip
+
 ## halifax
 ## health
 ## hello
@@ -234,6 +285,9 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## leg
 ## less
 ## libc
+
+- [musl](https://musl.libc.org/)
+
 ## libcdio
 ## libdbh
 ## liberty-eiffel
@@ -261,10 +315,19 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## lrzsz
 ## lsh
 ## m4
+
+- apparently the BSDs all have one
+
 ## macchanger
 ## mailman
 ## mailutils
 ## make
+
+- the BSDs have makes
+- [remake](https://github.com/rocky/remake) is a patched GNU make
+- [kati](https://github.com/google/kati) is a Google tool to translate your makefile into input for [ninja](https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja)
+- some extraordinarily attractive programmer has written make implementations [in python](https://pypi.org/project/yapymake/) and [in rust](https://crates.io/crates/makers)
+
 ## marst
 ## maverik
 ## mc
@@ -305,6 +368,9 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## parted
 ## pascal
 ## patch
+
+- apparently the BSDs may have independent implementations
+
 ## paxutils
 ## pcb
 ## pdf
@@ -364,6 +430,9 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## taler
 ## talkfilters
 ## tar
+
+- FreeBSD's got a tar
+
 ## termcap
 ## termutils
 ## teseq
@@ -398,3 +467,5 @@ perpetually incomplete; email melody@boringcactus.com with anything i've missed.
 ## xnee
 ## xorriso
 ## zile
+
+this is just emacs again, you can't fool me
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