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Re:CLI user experience case study on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:07PM (#38972447)
You're right in that an interactive CLI's interface is not trivial to nail. We're spending a lot of dev time on that actually. And of course there always also has to be a non-interactive version for automations.
Re:CLI user experience case study on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:22AM (#38967210)
As all computer interfaces evolved in the past decades (from text to graphical interfaces, to touch screens and voice commands), the users' expectations have changed and the CLIs need to evolve as well. Today's users don't have time or willingness to learn something before they can use it. The number of tools in daily has grown as well, so they really don't have the mental capacity for that.

We will always need CLIs for things that are to cumbersome or rare to add into GUIs; but they have to become easier to use, and provide immediate value.

That's why we built an interactive CLI by default at Diversion. It's not a revolutionary tool (there are other similar CLIs), but it has shown to help our users get started with Diversion much faster - the feedbacks are overwhelmingly positive.

Congrats on the launch! Will definitely try this when we'll be looking for pentesting