257mWhat are your programming hot takes?
Tools that use a GUI are just as good (if not better) than their CLI equivalents in most cases. There’s a certain kind of dev that just gets a superiority complex about using CLI stuff.
The big thing you can do from the command line is script it.
bob_wileyWhich means a person doesn’t need to become that good with the command line, they just need to learn the commands long enough to write the script and then never think about those commands again.
I’ve written a lot of scripts, but if someone asked me to do what the script does at the CLI with no man pages or anything, nope. Can’t do it, and I think that’s probably a good thing.
russIndeed, the problem with gui apps is when you can’t script them!
I always loved alfred on osx, then loved scripting rofi on linux, only to come back to osx years later and find alfred can’t be invoked with stdin options. It’s damn shame….