[behnamoh]

Maybe that's also why visual programming never took off. There's just a sense of "power and control" that comes with raw text that's unmatched in GUI apps.

I agree with your point about CLI. At the same time, I wish we had more GUI *inside* CLI. For example, an interactive and pretty MAN page that's not just text, but has clear borders, boxes, buttons (with keyboard shortcuts), and uses different colors for different sections (e.g., command description, arguments, examples, etc.)

[ocdtrekkie]

I think there's a strong case for a lot of systems having both a GUI and a CLI, because there are purposes each excel at, and a user may want to be able to switch between them depending what they are doing.

[behnamoh]

I think VSCode's command palette is close to this idea. I wish MS Word and other apps would add something similar.