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by jakelazaroff 402 days ago
Why is a GUI unsuited to stringly-typed data in a way that a CLI is not?
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As a matter of fact, Tcl/Tk has been doing exactly that since the 1990s. Of course, Tk has been "borrowed" by other languages, Python's tkinter is well-known. Any language using Tk widgets still has to input options in text form. Obviously that's not particularly difficult to accomplish.
Just an intuition.