Re:Terminals Are Sexy
by sharpercoder on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:06PM
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With a language, it is far more important. In a gui I can just click around and see. With tuis, I need to enter a command and hope it is the right syntax.
IDK about you, but I find it writing a command and seeing the result is far, far faster than clicking around.
I would spend far less time at my computer (would only use it for work) if it only had a CLI, but I would never, never use a GUI (beyond text editors, of course) for most of the grunt work, the CLI is simply faster and, and this is the most important issue, almost everything you do with it can be automated.
I couldn't even begin to imagine having to navigate the endless dialogues in IDEs to configure every little thing I would do in the command line, I'd give up programming altogether.
Re:Terminals Are Sexy
by BenjiWiebe on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:42PM
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Yes tuis. But clis commonly have a --help option, and/or a man page.
And how is this different for GUIs? Location / icons / description / ... depends entirely on the application. Some will have hotkey handles, some won't. Same app on a different system will look differently. (Possibly with different layout) Creating a discoverable GUI takes as much will and attention as a good set of CLI options.