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Re:CLI user experience case study by cfiggers on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:24AM (#38968259)
> I do TUI AND command line flags because some people want to do it quick and fast, or make aliases, etc for what they're doing. THen there's the TUI which opens if you don't run a flag, the TUI is so, so helpful to people new to the apps.

YES, this is the way to go! I've written a couple of internal tools that work this way and it's the best of both worlds IMO.

Re:CLI user experience case study by swozey on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:42AM (#38968534)
Yeah I love it. Makes the CLI only people happy and can let you spread the app around to people less familiar with what it does, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/dxXwRzD.gifv