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One of the arguments in the article against GUIs is GUI density i.e. you have a lot of features that it becomes difficult to discover them in UI. I believe this
by nocommandline 5y ago
One of the arguments in the article against GUIs is GUI density i.e. you have a lot of features that it becomes difficult to discover them in UI. I believe this is a valid issue but I don't see how CLUI is better at solving this problem. CLUI is employing search to figure out what you might be trying to do when you type a command. This works if your seed command (the command you typed in) makes sense to the search engine. This same search technique is employed by GUIs which have lots of features i.e. you type in what you want to do in the help box and it tries to understand your intent and returns documentation explaining the exact steps to take.
At the end of the day, I think GUIs & CLIs are targeted for different people and folks should pick which works for them.