Re:The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
by jjav on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:04AM
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The article is painful to read. For one thing, the author comingles the GUI terminal app with the shell, which are distinct things.
A GUI terminal doesn't need to run a shell, even if often it does.
e.g. "xterm -e emacs", now the GUI terminal is running emacs, not any shell.
(Of course arguably emacs is a shell and a universe onto itself but different topic.)
And a shell is called a "shell", not a "shell language". Yes a shell can be used as a scripting language, but when used interactively it is called a shell.
I have no comment on Windows, but anyone on MacOS who would find this guide to be useful would have absolutely no need to use anything other than the built-in Terminal. The guide does not say why the Terminal is underwhelming. What features does it lack, and more specifically, what features does it lack that a reader of this guide would actually need, when the reader of this guide doesn’t even know what a prompt is?