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by mark_kalvelage 3520 days ago
I think one of the big reasons that many dev tools are command line programs is that command line interfaces are just easier to code, even if you are writing all the parsing logic from scratch. You don't have to worry about designing a layout, hooking logic up across a UI thread, wrestling with a widget library, etc.
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On UNIX, the Windows, macOS culture is to provide GUIs for developer tools even if they might look a bit ugly.