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This idea is so great, really like it. But I don’t know how practical it is. From the article, It improves the UI and interaction of the CLI, "That means that images, gifs, video, graphs, interactive diagrams, buttons, and forms should be able to integrate directly into the CLI experience." which may improve the user experience, But the basic mode of interaction of CLI doesn't change. The CLI experience is still not intuitive. Maybe CLI will work well for simple scenarios, but I don't know if it is a good choice for the complex circumstances. The complex interaction and graphical interface display of some industrial scenes may not be well expressed by the CLI, Even they cannot interact only through the keyboard. So I worry that CLUI will face a situation where complex circumstances are too much to handle and simple scenarios are unnecessary. Actually, there has been some CLI tool through shortcuts and custom instruction to do these things (autocomplete, fuzzy-search, tips or guidelines) with text way, They also did well.


I think the main value of CLUI is that it flattens the learning curve for users who don't normally use the terminal, not that it scales all the way from new users to experienced ones.


Completely agree.




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