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Not at all! Programs, and websites, are built for humans, and very very rarely offer non-GUI access. This is the only feasible way to make something useful now.
by nomel 2y ago
Not at all! Programs, and websites, are built for humans, and very very rarely offer non-GUI access. This is the only feasible way to make something useful now. I think it's also the reason why robots will look like humans, be the same proportions as humans, have roughly the same feet and hands as humans: everything in the world was designed for humans. That being the foundation is going to influence what's built on top.
For program access, one could claim this is even how linux tools usually do it: you parse some meant-for
human text to attempt to extract what you want. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can find an argument that spits out something meant for machines. Funny enough, Microsoft is the only one that made any real headway for this seemingly impossible goal: powershell objects [1].
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/ps101/03-discovering-objects?view=powershell-7.4 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn...
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