What are the chances that Xonsh or Pyp will be installed on a system I wish to use?
The submission is about a non-standard dialect of Awk. There is zero chance you'll have that on any random system you might want to use. If it's between that and Pyp, why not use Pyp?
And also, in the technology business, you are supposed to make progress happen. Sometimes, that involves making older technology obsolete. Making things obsolete is sometimes good, especially if the older thing has major problems.
True, but the comment I responded to also has this:
> You won't need to learn Awk
Regardless, let's accept the claim that it's only about non-standard frawk.
> If it's between that and Pyp, why not use Pyp?
Because, as the instructions[0] point out
> Run pip install pypyp (note the extra "yp"!)
> pyp requires Python 3.6 or above.
It's necessary to install pip and Python at least to do so, I expect that I can produce a binary for frawk and drop it in far more easily. I'm not even sure what advantage Pyp has over using a Python REPL (or Ruby or perl etc).
> And also, in the technology business, you are supposed to make progress happen.
I do that by writing good code and improving processes.
As I've pointed out, I fail to see how needing to include the Python ecosystem is "progress" over a binary that is tiny, fast, and works. Calling things obsolete because they're "old" is the argument of a teenager. I apologise if that sounds rude, but I don't know how else to put it, that's what it is.