[macrael]

My first thought is that it's a classic macOS dev strategy to take a CLI tool and build a UI for it. In retrospect brew is a perfect candidate

[donatj]

It's been about a decade since I ran desktop Linux in any meaningful capacity but I feel like that was the way a significant portion of the gui apps worked.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Xcode is easily the largest (non-game) app on my computer, and it’s really just a glorified CLI client.

[blashyrk]

This becomes painfully obvious once the backend inevitably crashes at some point and the functionality of the editor is reduced to that of Notepad until you do a full restart