[rektide]

The command line ought hybridize some, please. Having better self describing interfaces, machine to machine capabilities... humans are awesome enouhh to whip up super wild magic on the fly ("spellcasting on the fly") but these same tools are much weirder to use as you descend into scripting, as you start bringing "real" programming languages in (which have their own alternate realities: "standard libraries").

The command line should/ought bridge & integrate better. Making it more usable from these higher (more pre-baked/automated) levels is one side. And then reciprocally, how wonderful it would be to see execution flow expressed less in terms of stack traces & more in terms of networks of communicating processes. Create boundary layers, make the cli tools visible & known operations sequenced by (but still visible within) higher level systems.

Cli on and on!!

[jrm4]

Amen. Offhand, can we start with e.g. a 2 or 3 window deal, in which there is a file manager and a document viewer that one can easily copy and paste from? There's stuff out there that sort of does this but it could be done MUCH better.