Ask HN: The ultimate user interface

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Jeffrey Snover, inventor of PowerShell, wrote in 2007:

"It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, could, or even should, eliminate CLIs."

16 years later. Has the situation changed? Will it ever change?

We should obviously have both.

CLI is for automation. GUI is for exploration and certain limited contexts like mobile devices.

But CLI should be preferred when in doubt, or you lack resources. PowerShell type of CLI at that.