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You're describing all command line tools and config files. Maybe people will discover GUIs one day, it's only been 30 years.

• andrew_ 4y ago
  "Everything old is new again"
• antonvs 4y ago
  That's not even remotely true. For example, Rust has an excellent command line build pipeline experience. That has to do both with design decisions - a typed, compiled language has a big edge here - and differences in how the respective ecosystems were designed and developed. As for GUIs, I'll paraphrase an old quote I saw on Usenet once: if you need to point at something to communicate, you're at the cognitive level of a preverbal child.
  • chakkepolja 4y ago
    Even google languages (Go, Dart) and modern Java, no matter how people here hate them, have excellent tooling.
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  • iamnotafreeman 4y ago
    hope that last bit was very much in jest otherwise "someone on the Usenet is wrong." visual stuff (vs. text) is about massive parallelism and compression. see Rudy Arnheim for example. or Tufte. or video games. or excel. or a good "foreign" film. or VR once it doesn't suck. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242265/visual-thinking https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242265/visual-thinking