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Ask your non-dev peers if they know what the command line is and if they have ever used it or seen especially when most people use the web on their smartphone.
by croes 1y ago
Ask your non-dev peers if they know what the command line is and if they have ever used it or seen especially when most people use the web on their smartphone.
- protocolture 1y agoNetwork Engineers, Systems Engineers, Devops. Anyone who deals with any kind of machine with a console port. CLIs are current technology, that receive active development alongside GUI for a large range of purposes. Heck Windows currently ships with 3 implementations. Command Prompt, Powershell AND Terminal.
- throwaway290 1y agoand how do you open those three terminals?) or do you boot in DOS mode? CLI is ALWAYS fallback when nothing else works (except when fetish of people on HN). even most devs use IDEs most of the time.
- protocolture 1y agoWindows is making pretty decent inroads with its headless windows server installs. Powershell is the default interface, no real gui to speak of. Theres a pretty decent list of incompatible features, but its shrinking (mostly due to those features being EOL'd not upgraded)
- seemaze 1y agoI recently demonstrated ripgrep-all with fzf to search through thousands of PDFs in seconds on the command line and watched my colleague’s mind implode.
- anthk 1y agoRun iomenu instead of fzf, it might run faster than the Go binary.
- scuff3d 1y agoI'm aware. Just having a bit of fun. Obviously the vast majority of computer users don't even know what a command line is.