Re:Fig: Visual Apps and Shortcuts for Your Terminal
by SllX on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:10AM
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I don’t disagree, on principle I think it is better to know your tools and know them well.
At the same time I too once had to learn my tools, and I can empathize with those that just want to quickly get to work and don’t want to memorize every single command-line option, whether this tool uses one dash or two dashes, or single letters, whole words, was it a capital “A” or a lower case “a” to do the thing I want. Personally I won’t be using fig, but I could see why someone might try it. If it helps new developers learn the command line, or helps them get to the meat of working with code without feeling hindered by what they perceive as this old archaic interface, but they want to learn this thing eventually, there’s probably some value in that.
At the same time I too once had to learn my tools, and I can empathize with those that just want to quickly get to work and don’t want to memorize every single command-line option, whether this tool uses one dash or two dashes, or single letters, whole words, was it a capital “A” or a lower case “a” to do the thing I want. Personally I won’t be using fig, but I could see why someone might try it. If it helps new developers learn the command line, or helps them get to the meat of working with code without feeling hindered by what they perceive as this old archaic interface, but they want to learn this thing eventually, there’s probably some value in that.