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A CLI needs to work on windows, mac, linux, android, iOS, etc. And it still needs some backend APIs to call. So creating one is a lot more work than just making
by didibus 5mo ago
A CLI needs to work on windows, mac, linux, android, iOS, etc. And it still needs some backend APIs to call. So creating one is a lot more work than just making an MCP.
- sagrd 5mo ago[dead]
- PaulHoule 5mo agoThat kind of code is easily portable in C or Rust or Go or Java or Python so long as it is a CLI and not GUI.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]
- oliculipolicula 5mo agoAgain, tangential, relevant only in that CLI "portability coolness" captures only some of the meaningfulness Having slept on the poorly made point I was trying to stick. I'm aware its still all tell no show )-: A comment worthy of hacker news highlights, Amish-made, fully earnest! Would appeal to people with money, all manner of handlers, enbies born to embrace struggle, not to mention portability porn addicts. All things to all people but without the messianic contingent An Amish who might well have built a Space Lasers Platform at Bell Labs! Should perhaps be the character to learn how to play. This same Amish character would only use CLIs, on a wooden nonelectronic keyboard I credit the obvious (to you) people here (incl you again) for this concept of an idea. Molon labe Update: backrooms is getting serious traction in Indonesia. Ask me in a year if it was only meta-interest
- didibus 4mo agoThe language barely matters, the issue is packaging, distribution, platform permissions, pushing updates, keeping client/server versions in sync, shell support, etc. Where-as if you just expose HTTP endpoints, all that doesn't matter, you just need cURL or any app, like the chatGPT mobile app, can just call into your endpoint.