Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by dirkt on Sunday July 12, 2020 @01:59AM (#23809215)

I love git, but the command-line interface feels like it was grown over some time (which it was). It's just very ad-hoc in what commands are used to accomplish something.

The underlying architecture of git is awesome, but even if I know exactly what I want to do based on my understanding on the architecture, it's not obvious which command and which switches to use to achieve this. And I use the command-line all day, and I am good at remembering switches.

But still, for git I've written myself a list on what combinations to what, and when I need to do something more exotic, I look it up in that list. A more consistent CLI would allow me to do what I want without lookup.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by lloydatkinson on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:04AM (#23818714)

This is exactly what I meant, but I guess people were more interested in ad-hominem attacks because I questioned their favourite tools. I also have a list of magic combinations that I know do the thing I need. But I don’t really use them now because I use a GUI.

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