[sweezyjeezy]

I'd say that's a bit orthogonal - command line tools are also hiding underpinnings from you. The issue is about the UX, not the functionality. Seemingly every command line tool has built it's own language of incantations on how to use it. I've been using grep, tar, curl, find, xargs etc. at least a few times per week for over a decade now now. I shouldn't have to look at the man pages this regularly just to remember the letters I need to type on something I've done 30 times before.

I don't have this problem with the equivalent libraries in the programming languages I use, give me 'easy mode'. We need new binaries with a modern UX, or a better IDE for using the command line.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Command line tools are composable. They give you superpowers by being able to rally a collection of unrelated programs into working for your benefit. Monolithic GUIs can't do this.

[sweezyjeezy]

Who said anything about a monolithic GUI? Just compare the UX of a modern programming language and its standard library to that of Unix OS's. By and large they have a unified, more user-friendly style, better tooling, better documentation.

[genericacct]

GPT and other similar technology will be the new IDE soon. Command line gpt tools are already out there and they will write bash scripts in seconds.