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Ultimately some tools are meant to be efficiently used, not intuitively used. A command-line program is not typically intuitive to the average person, it's why
by agildehaus 7y ago
Ultimately some tools are meant to be efficiently used, not intuitively used.
A command-line program is not typically intuitive to the average person, it's why we have GUIs, but given enough knowledge of how it works it's very efficient and powerful.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoFor me the power of CLI is in the scriptability. But just because it runs in a terminal doesn't mean it's scriptable easily. I kind of think that once you've used ncurses in a terminal to make something interactive, you've just made a bad GUI. Slow, often bad scroll behavior, and very prone to the terminal state getting corrupted. (Think of what random binary data will do to your terminal...) But that's just my opinion