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With a language, it is far more important. In a gui I can just click around and see. With tuis, I need to enter a command and hope it is the right syntax.
by sharpercoder 8y ago
With a language, it is far more important. In a gui I can just click around and see. With tuis, I need to enter a command and hope it is the right syntax.
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoYes tuis. But clis commonly have a --help option, and/or a man page.
- luord 8y agoIDK about you, but I find it writing a command and seeing the result is far, far faster than clicking around. I would spend far less time at my computer (would only use it for work) if it only had a CLI, but I would never, never use a GUI (beyond text editors, of course) for most of the grunt work, the CLI is simply faster and, and this is the most important issue, almost everything you do with it can be automated. I couldn't even begin to imagine having to navigate the endless dialogues in IDEs to configure every little thing I would do in the command line, I'd give up programming altogether.