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Clearly a lot of HN readers have Unix command-line Stockholm syndrome. It's a sad fact that having facility with the Unix command line enables one to be more p
by wffurr 12y ago
Clearly a lot of HN readers have Unix command-line Stockholm syndrome.
It's a sad fact that having facility with the Unix command line enables one to be more productive, but that's because because it gives you access to a huge array of useful tools, not due to any innate qualities of the interface.
It's a clear case of worse-is-better.
- lukev 12y agoI really want to agree with you - its easy to look at the command line and point out how it's suboptimal. Unfortunately, there's a dearth of real, better alternatives. There's a lot of ideas, and a lot of toy projects, but there's nothing that's actually viable to which we can migrate. Except, maybe the Microsoft dev stack. But I still prefer the *nix suite.