What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only

Re:What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only by mooreds on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:55AM (#19294432)

> Turns out, most people don't want to have anything to do with a command prompt, even if the hard part has been done for you. That's been a pretty good lesson BTW.

My experience has been that some folks are resistant to the command line (but I wouldn't say most). This is too bad because I feel like it's a crucial part of development. I even wrote a post about it: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/02/04/learn-the-comm...

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Re:What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only by lapnitnelav on Sunday March 03, 2019 @12:26PM (#19295579)

In my specific case, it wasn't dev profiles but people on a spectrum going from I grok tech stuff to only browsing and the office suite.

So obviously, whenever I started doing trainings on how to use the cli / the toolkit, I could see what is best described as mild panic. Which I get, CLI isn't inviting at all, it's pretty daunting, there's no real emphasis on safety (as in not breaking anything), it's far from being easy to reason with when you're used to the Windows / GUI world.

The lesson was not so much about the prompt and more about understanding your target audience and catering to them really.

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Re:What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only by mooreds on Sunday March 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#19295590)

Ah, that makes sense. Yes, understanding your audience and meeting them where they are (or maybe just a bit closer to where you want them to get to) is always very important.

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