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by CoolCold 917 days ago
> terminal DevEx across the board and fix all sorts of terminal micro-frustrations

I believe you believe this such a thing exists - I'd like to read/hear your thoughts on this - in my bubble of system administration, I'm not sure I do feel the pain/unique value proposition (not saying it doesn't exist).

> remote file editor, markdown viewer, image viewer, CSV viewer, and a ChatGPT interface

not sure I'd even want something of this be in my terminal at all, for example and cannot imagine why it's a big deal (would like read real life stories again)

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It is my very limited experience that the frontend JS devs who mainly have experience working with cloud GUIs and PaaS and do not have a lot of experience in a terminal environment appreciate those types of features.
a couple that have come up a lot in my talks with devs who use the CLI, but don't necessary live in it are: copy/paste, dealing with tmux, getting disconnected, using 'vi' remotely, having to setup prompts/colors/aliases on every new remote machine, editing commands without using the mouse. I'm not saying there aren't ways to do all of this now (especially when you have a lot of experience), but there can be a steep learning curve for new devs.