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by didibus 13 days ago
A CLI needs to work on windows, mac, linux, android, iOS, etc. And it still needs some backend APIs to call. So creating one is a lot more work than just making an MCP.
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That kind of code is easily portable in C or Rust or Go or Java or Python so long as it is a CLI and not GUI.
Again, tangential, relevant only in that CLI "portability coolness" captures only some of the meaningfulness

Having slept on the poorly made point I was trying to stick. I'm aware its still all tell no show )-:

  A comment worthy of hacker news highlights, Amish-made, fully earnest!
Would appeal to people with money, all manner of handlers, enbies born to embrace struggle, not to mention portability porn addicts. All things to all people but without the messianic contingent

  An Amish who might well have built a Space Lasers Platform  at Bell Labs!
Should perhaps be the character to learn how to play. This same Amish character would only use CLIs, on a wooden nonelectronic keyboard

I credit the obvious (to you) people here (incl you again) for this concept of an idea. Molon labe

Update: backrooms is getting serious traction in Indonesia. Ask me in a year if it was only meta-interest

The language barely matters, the issue is packaging, distribution, platform permissions, pushing updates, keeping client/server versions in sync, shell support, etc.

Where-as if you just expose HTTP endpoints, all that doesn't matter, you just need cURL or any app, like the chatGPT mobile app, can just call into your endpoint.