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How is this garbage at the front page? Unix is 56 years old, SQL is 50. Of course they are not perfect.

But the take from this post sounds ridiculous. I clicked expecting some take on consistency and some nice paradigm. But no, some weird-ass ranting with 80s UIs. I couldn't keep reading.

> Unless you're a nerd, CLI interfaces are passé.

Haven't they just made a ginormous come-back, thanks to AI?

This reminds me of how 20 years ago I was learning to code and someone told me "but people today don't do stuff with text. now they do stuff with GRAPHICS!"

CLIs have been passé for the non-nerd set since Windows gained a foothold in computing oh 35+ years ago. They haven't gone away, nor will they. Windows is actually more CLI-friendly now than before, with powershell, Windows Terminal, WSL, and that almost GUIless Windows server core thing. Macs gained a command line in 2000 by eating OpenStep. And of course, Linux.

I like simplicity. The Unix philosophy, as codified, is both simple and rigid. It's the rigidity that kills it.

The Unix philosophy does not give room for experimentation, learning, understanding, and growth. It imposes a set of rules, and some people take that as unalterable.

These people are wrong.

I don't understand how the unix philosophy is rigid ? Can you explain a bit more ?