[cosmotic]

Oh so many false or misleading claims.

1. "The keyboard allows for faster input"; sometimes that's true, but consider picking a coordinate within an image. Mouse is better than KB for such a task. 2. Composable commands; GUIs have these too. 3. Scripting; GUIs have this too.

Reification in GUIs exists; consider an activity log or automator script. Absence of reification also exists in CLI; consider a package manager downloading packages; basically any CLI program that manipulates the screen like ncurses.

Which brings us to the worst offenders: CLI programs pretending to be GUI programs. They minimize the benefit of CLI while only taking the weakest advantages of a GUI. Build tools like webpack come to mind here.

The article seems to be presenting best-case CLI against worst-case GUI.