alt Hacker NewsThat has nothing to do with discoverability. Discoverability isn't about "guessing" it's about being able to see it.
Discoverability in CLI is --help. But you can't discover you have to use --help. So CLI is always fundamentally worse than GUI.
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robotresearcher • today at 5:02 PM
You also have to just know what program to invoke with the —help arg.
Good luck guessing ‘grep’ from first principles.
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It helps that for most cli tools, any incorrect usage will show the usage text, including --help