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> I really wish all things like these were first written at terminal CLI apps first and that the GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely. I
by shurcooL 13y ago
> I really wish all things like these were first written at terminal CLI apps first and that the GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely.
I really wish all things like these were first written as public libraries and that the CLI/GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely.
That way, you could write higher-level programs to automate tedious tasks, without having to write extra code that does the unnecessary work of wrapping around the CLI/GUI.
- masklinn 13y ago> That way, you could write higher-level programs to automate tedious tasks, without having to write extra code that does the unnecessary work of wrapping around the CLI/GUI. Of course on OSX the historical way to do that has been for the application to provide an applescript library.