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I don't think the CLI one is a good analogy. > We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason Man I still love command-line so much > And i

I don't think the CLI one is a good analogy. > We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason Man I still love command-line so much > And it would go on like this for hours while you tried in vain to guess what the hell it wanted you to type, or you discovered the outdoors, whichever came first. [...] guess what secret spell they had to type into their computer to get actual work done Well... docs and the "-h" do a pretty good job.

motoxpro 1y ago
The games he is talking about deliberately didn't have docs or help because that WAS the game, to guess. I think same here, while there are docs "please show me the correct way to do X," the surface area is so large the the analogy holds up still, in that you might as well just be guessing fo rhte right command.