Tools that use a GUI are just as good (if not better) than their CLI equivalents in most cases. There’s a certain kind of dev that just gets a superiority complex about using CLI stuff.
There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:
The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc
So while I agree with you that there’s plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.
Just no. CLI can be automated, which makes it superior. It’s not a superiority complex, it’s a fact. I’m not a minimal wage worker pushing buttons I don’t understand. I’m not a technician who learnt your shitty software to do the most basic tasks.
Tools that use a GUI are just as good (if not better) than their CLI equivalents in most cases. There’s a certain kind of dev that just gets a superiority complex about using CLI stuff.
There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:
fzfand run the exact same command again.So while I agree with you that there’s plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.
Just no. CLI can be automated, which makes it superior. It’s not a superiority complex, it’s a fact. I’m not a minimal wage worker pushing buttons I don’t understand. I’m not a technician who learnt your shitty software to do the most basic tasks.