Anil DashLOL I stepped away from Mastodon for a couple hours and everybody is VERY MAD that I made jokes about CLIs. I use them every day, guys, it's gonna be okay. I promise I did not hurt Zork's feelings. It is, however, a factual statement that CLIs are not discoverable user interfaces and they are a poor choice for mainstream audiences; this debate was settled long ago.
Steve Leach@anildash We *used* to have *documentation* and things didn't have to be "discoverable".
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@stevenaleach @anildash I was there and I disagree. Otherwise, why did the acronym RTFM need to exist?
(Then again, today I am writing a CLI/possibly eventually TUI tool. Yes, in 2025.)
@stevenaleach @anildash Yeah, lots of people probably haven't heard of "jq" or "htop" or imagemagick. All of which are very useful.