Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by i336_ 3433 days ago
Right, that makes a lot of sense. If you develop the CLI version more and made it easier to (for example) batch-apply patterns against many datasets, and added sufficient facility to fix the other configuration gripes that are currently harder than in the GUI, well, the CLI will win some more.

I do have to agree, GUIs can be easier to use if they're well-designed. It's also arguably easier to build GUIs than CLIs in some situations, particularly where you don't need something to be fully Turing-complete.