CLIs Are Making A Comeback

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[tjuta]

"I dont know what he did, or how he did it, but i want that" is exactly what i told myself when i watched you code for the first time, and decided to learn vim.

[thekwoka]

You use the CLI for maximum efficiency and control. I use it to look like a hacker at the airport. We are not the same.

[wchen]

tab autocompletion is the greatest invention since sliced bread.

[jsever]

You lovely sir made me get into Vim, Glove80, Rust, and deeznutz inn just 2 months. Former react-script kitty here. Much love

[P-_Airacobra]

The terminal is nice because its a standard interface to everything. Without it, each application needs to waste tons of effort creating an entirely new interface that never needed to exist. For the non-programmers, it also helps with awareness of the filesystem, which is generally good for keeping your files organized.

[Jabberwockybird]

I don't ned a fancier new cli. I need applications that run on the cli, that I can use faster than clicking around on a website.

[RichardFarmbrough]

People have no idea how expensive syntax highlighting would have been. Yes we thought of it (and type ahead) but when you are working in a few k you need disc access to run a spell checker.

[ingenarelitems]

remember, switching to your terminal is always faster than loading up guis

[krtign]

I only got into Linux in January this year but I've since fully embraced the terminal. I even made my own bespoke nvim + tmux setup from scratch. Combine that with zsh and zoxide, it's insanely OP. And to think I didn't have this RAW POWER a year ago.

[nightshade]

the W in helix for me is it's always visual, I can see everything that is going happen before it happens, and the motions are different because of this focus on select then action

[bettprince]

Helix is an experience you just get after using it. Not having to keep state in my head is subtle but impactful experience. You just need to use it to understand it.

[isaac]

I did AutoCAD professionally for 2 years and when you get really good at it its literally 90% CLI. Thats how I got CLI-pilled.

[YaroslavFedevych]

Make is a graph resolver, not just a command runner. See Buildroot as an example.

Make does have C-shaped defaults (like, it knows to run "cc" on .c files to get .o files by default), but that's because of how it has been used for decades.

I'm using it to rebuild _swaths_ of RPM packages in correct order for a custom package repository at work.

[AqgvPr-hqvu]

Nice, the market is growing. Now it is time for us divide the TUI / CLI application development into two (FE, BE), and apply react components for TUI.

[shApYT]

I don't understand why devs that make cli tools are allergic to screenshots and examples. I get you don't want to write docs. No one wants to write it but the least you can do is copy and paste the terminal output into the readme.

[matiasbpg]

tldr solves most of the problems for cli tools i don't use frequently enough to memorize

[Kinos]

I was in a college class and I was 23 and one of my classmates who was in his 40s straight up said, "Real men use command line."

From then, I've been messing with command line. Now, I'm 40 and it's the thing I use almost entirely in my career. lol

[McmcmcmcHoyototkr]

I think the world would be a better place if more people shared their workflows. In my experience, observing which tools and processes someone uses can be the easiest way I've unlocked significant productivity gains in my everyday life. But maybe that's the sauce reserved for the top shelf.

[derekdmonkey]

Just now i switched to Ubuntu removing windows 11 from my laptop, it's been 1 month into my first intership, and i think it's gonna be great from now on 🎉

[ijstanley]

"Nobody uses bash thinking bash is good"

*Windows Command Line user clears throat*