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I would say that the command line is an eminent non-graphical variant of a GUI, thus a canonical UI. GUI = graphical user interface GUI - graphical = UI
by xiaoma 15y ago
I would say that the command line is an eminent non-graphical variant of a GUI, thus a canonical UI.
GUI = graphical user interface
GUI - graphical = UI
- thepumpkin1979 15y ago+1 CLI = command-line interface
- mkramlich 15y agoand the beauty of CLI is that, unlike with a GUI, a CLI can serve as both a human UI, and a machine UI or API. and it does the latter for free. give me a binary-only program with a CLI interface and I can build other things on top of it, put it into a pipeline, turn it into a cronjob, etc. give me a binary-only GUI? often nothing you can build on it
- deno 15y agoYou can automate GUIs using accessibility controls and/or desktop message bus. If an app is modular, as it should be, it does not matter one bit how many UIs it exposes. Also all CLIs are not the same — try automating ncurses application.