[duped]

I have imagined this, because I've worked on products where our first time user had never used a CLI tool or REPL before. It's a nightmare. That said, it's no less a nightmare than every other CLI tool, because even our most basic conventions are tribal knowledge that are not taught outside of our communities and it's always an uphill battle teaching ones that may be unfamiliar to someone from a different tribe.

[MobiusHorizons]

It is true that every field (honestly every corner of most fields) has certain specific knowledge that is both incredibly necessary to get anything done, and completely arbitrary. These are usually historical reactions to problems solved in a very particular way usually without a lot of thought, simply because it was an expedient option at the time.

I feel like venv is one such solution. A workaround that doesn’t solve the problem at its root, so much as make the symptoms manageable. But there is (at least for me) a big difference between things like that and the cool ideas that underlie shell tooling like Unix pipes. Things like jq or fzf are awesome examples of new tooling that fit beautifully in the existing paradigm but make it more powerful and useful.