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I disagree. I'm a super-user and as such I have to use hundreds of tools to GTD. What you call “pretty UI” I call ergonomics. So I appreciate when the tooling
by sdf4j 3y ago
I disagree.
I'm a super-user and as such I have to use hundreds of tools to GTD. What you call “pretty UI” I call ergonomics. So I appreciate when the tooling is respectful of my time and don’t require me to visit the man page just because the developer was so situational myopic that thought sparing a few characters was a good idea.
It all smells like unconscious gatekeeping.
- phist_mcgee 3y agoAnd don't get me started on undocumented parts of CLIs, which are unknown unknowns, especially when they hold core parts of the API. RTFM is usually (not always) a way to gatekeep bad UX.
- chefandy 3y agoRight. There USED to be good reasons to have that be the way classic CLI utilities worked— your terminal had 80 character lines, you might be working over a 300 baud modem, you might be using a teletype terminal and you didn't want to waste paper, having machine-focused output and human-focused output was too resource Intensive... All of that is gone now.