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Oh so many false or misleading claims. 1. "The keyboard allows for faster input"; sometimes that's true, but consider picking a coordinate within an image. Mou
by cosmotic 6y ago
Oh so many false or misleading claims.
1. "The keyboard allows for faster input"; sometimes that's true, but consider picking a coordinate within an image. Mouse is better than KB for such a task.
2. Composable commands; GUIs have these too.
3. Scripting; GUIs have this too.
Reification in GUIs exists; consider an activity log or automator script. Absence of reification also exists in CLI; consider a package manager downloading packages; basically any CLI program that manipulates the screen like ncurses.
Which brings us to the worst offenders: CLI programs pretending to be GUI programs. They minimize the benefit of CLI while only taking the weakest advantages of a GUI. Build tools like webpack come to mind here.
The article seems to be presenting best-case CLI against worst-case GUI.