[TUHS] evolution of the cli

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

"A. P. Garcia via TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> What I’ve been sketching out with a friend is a shell where the fundamental
> objects aren’t strings or ad-hoc JSON, but live views of kernel structures.
>
> [...]
>
> I’d love to hear if this resonates with your lived experience, or if you’d
> say “nice dream, kid, but here’s why it falls apart in the real world.”

Nice dream, kid, but here's why it falls apart in the real world:

Most developers don't need to know that level of non-abstraction or
care to work at that level.  If you're building product, you hook
things together with shell (or other) scripts.

What you're proposing may be dynamite for sysadmins trying to troubleshoot,
but that's a small percentage of the potential user base.

Not to mention it's linux-only and won't port to *BSD, macOS or what-have-
you.

Now if Linux sysadmins IS your target audience, go for it.

My two cents, of course,

Arnold