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I can see the benefits of structured output from CLI tools. It’s a bit rare to find but they do exist. I believe the closest I have found in the wild is a termi
by xyst 5y ago
I can see the benefits of structured output from CLI tools. It’s a bit rare to find but they do exist. I believe the closest I have found in the wild is a terminal instance connecting to some 1980s mainframe tech.
There are also some FOSS tools aimed at increasing the readability of CLI tools
https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
Doesn’t offer tables (yet) but is about as good as it’s going to get.
For “easy mode” apps, isn’t this what GUI apps were made for? The old Java applets and apps using Swing/JavaFX or Qt are the ones that immediately come to mind.