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Comment by _nkoa | Hacker News Reader

What are the advantages of using this over tldr[1] or cheat[2] ?

[1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr [2] https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

I'm aware of [1] and [2] but never used them, honestly they seem to be a bit too much for the problem they try to solve. I could be wrong since I haven't used them, but that impression is why I haven't even tried.

I appreciate that this is quite low-friction. One click and I can see quick examples of bash (which I don't script enough in to be comfortable with the syntax).

But regardless I'm not super keen on cheat-cheets in general either.

I don't understand exactly how this is low-friction in any possible way...

1. Open browser -> Go to devhints -> search for "dd" -> select doc

2. Open term -> type tldr dd

Another thing that is missing is offline access, localStorage integrates in minutes...

I simply feel like this is someone trying to reinvent the wheel and also that this medium (a website) might not be the best way to do that. Sure it has a pretty frontend and a somewhat decent user experience for a web "app", but I (and probably many more devs) spend about 90% of my day in my terminal...

Installing something means to open a browser in the first place, do research, install it, and then launch it and figure out how to use it. Many many orders of magnitudes worse.

Yes, the benefit comes from already having it installed and knowing how to use it next time. I'm saying that the problem it solves isn't worth going through all that hassle even once.

One that I could think of is that you're using a system with strict permissions so you can't install or use either of them.

And after looking at how cheat.sh works I wouldn't use a tool that requires me to curl everything. Some may like to use it, but I prefer not to.

Cheat (not Cheat.sh) doesn't require any admin permissions to install (with homebrew at least) https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat

Honestly, it's more work to use the curl command and for some examples I've tried with cheat.sh I didn't get any answer, which then costs me even more time to look up the actual answer.

Your tool tells me from the start, what I can get and what I can't get. So I go on the site, write down the language/framework/whatever and get an answer. Better UX and to be honest, way better and modern UI.

Unrelated comment but how did they make the gif so long on cheat.sh?

The file was only a small size of 621kb and almost 1 minute long

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