CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by dreary_dugong on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:05PM (#22499789)

While I agree wholeheartedly with the stated goals, I do worry that the CLUI isn't quite as perfect s solution as it's implied to be. The CLUI is listed as having all of the upsides of both GUI and CLI but none of the downsides of either, but I feel it's more like halfway on everything. It's /more/ approachable than a CLI, but still /less/ approachable than a GUI and this goes for most of the categories listed. It's still an interesting idea but it strikes me as a bit risky. At what point does less approachable become too unapproachable? I fear CLUI may have accidentally gained many of the downsides at the same time as mere pieces of the upsides

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by airstrike on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:24PM (#22499923)

I agree. It feels like an improvement over the very limited interaction from a plain CLI, but it isn't foolproof. The user still needs to know e.g. whether the right way to set an user's role is through 'admin roles' or 'admin user'

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by tangert on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:36PM (#22500011)

replit designer here - yes, totally agree. the current implementation definitely is not foolproof, but it's just the start. ideally it will handle more unstructured commands in the future!

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by airstrike on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:06PM (#22500180)

For the avoidance of doubt: I think this is awesome! Keep up the good work!

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by tangert on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:16PM (#22500218)

thank you :)

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by tangert on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:40PM (#22500033)

interesting point. luckily we're testing it in a pretty sandboxed environment so it's not going to overtake replit all at once. I think the power will come from integrating CLUI seamlessly into the parts of GUIs people are really accustomed to. luckily all the questions you raise are totally testable and will be a part of our research process :)

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