Is a command line interface better than a GUI?

#EvanPoll #poll

Yes
22.5%
Yes, but...
36.2%
No, but...
30.1%
No
11.2%
Poll ended at .

@evan No, but

- CLI tools are scriptable by design, and sometimes you need that. So that counts as “better” sometimes.
- Most CLI tools could have a GUI built around the core library (you DID build a library at the core, right? Text is not an API contract…)
- CLIs are the wrong tool for many things. Like most git operations on non trivial repos, where a GUI dramatically reduces the incidence of all sorts of errors.