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What do you have against text? I can't cope with GUIs hiding everything while wasting half the screen on decorations. Text is simple, doesn't change, is easy to
by t-3 4y ago
What do you have against text? I can't cope with GUIs hiding everything while wasting half the screen on decorations. Text is simple, doesn't change, is easy to remember. I started with GUIs too, used Windows, Mac OS 9 and OS X before discovering the CLI, so this isn't nostalgia, I really prefer text. It's incredibly empowering to interact with the computer through a simple and comprehensible text interface.
- pjmlp 4y agoText, is ok when it makes sense, and even then, a REPL is much better option. Living in the past of when graphics workstations were more expensive than buying a house, if available at all, not so much. When I started, text was the only option, so yeah for me it doesn't make sense to throw away everything we got since 1980's in computing.