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scscsc on Sept 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GUIs kick CLIs' asses

He's missing scriptability, modularity and extensibility.

Also, most GUIs (that programmers care about) lag behind the CLI in features (i.e. command-line GDB vs graphical debuggers).

scdef on Sept 6, 2011 [–]

Not to mention plugability -- can't remember the last time I had a GUI feeding another GUI input through a pipe

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