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While I appreciate any experiments in making CLI more approachable to the public, I do disagree with the author's assertion that CLI has "low" discoverability a
by monoideism 5y ago
While I appreciate any experiments in making CLI more approachable to the public, I do disagree with the author's assertion that CLI has "low" discoverability and interactivity. Many modern CLI environments have excellent discoverability and interactivity: shells such as PowerShell and zsh, and REPLs such as ipython all come to mind. Even bash can be customized to do fairly well.
- alex_smart 5y agoErm, compared to GUI interfaces, shells really do have very low discoverability. Someone really new to the shell could stare at their terminal emulator for months before they would even come up with "ls". Yes, shells can be made more interactive, but that requires setup and prior-experience and know-how. How would someone new know to install zsh and something like ohmyzsh?