I’d argue the GUI has the lowest barrier to entry as it eliminates the need to learn any syntax or look up which switches to use.
If someone use a particular CLI tool often it can be quick and easy to do something, but for the occasional use, a GUI is much easier, assuming it has the required features a person needs. Can I use sed to replace a bunch of text in a file, sure, but it’s probably be faster and easier to use a text editor since I’m not using sed everyday.
It also depends on the specifics — in many cases when a GUI is just a wrapper over the CLI tool, it is instructive to learn the CLI, similarly how you are a better programmer if you know about at least a layer beneath the one you are programming at (e.g. you can reason about this usage of hashmap because you roughly know what it does).
It is probably the most visible in git, but if you can only do commit and push from a GUI, just please learn the CLI as well. You don’t have to use it, but understanding it is important and the GUI may abstract away too much from you.
I agree, for a power user there is some value there.
I’ve used the git CLI, but find it a bit tedious. I also find a lot of value in the GUI providing an easy diff reference before a commit, at least in the app I use most of the time. There are some things the GUI can’t do, or it’s too weird to do, so the CLI is still handy.
I’d argue the GUI has the lowest barrier to entry as it eliminates the need to learn any syntax or look up which switches to use.
If someone use a particular CLI tool often it can be quick and easy to do something, but for the occasional use, a GUI is much easier, assuming it has the required features a person needs. Can I use sed to replace a bunch of text in a file, sure, but it’s probably be faster and easier to use a text editor since I’m not using sed everyday.
It also depends on the specifics — in many cases when a GUI is just a wrapper over the CLI tool, it is instructive to learn the CLI, similarly how you are a better programmer if you know about at least a layer beneath the one you are programming at (e.g. you can reason about this usage of hashmap because you roughly know what it does).
It is probably the most visible in git, but if you can only do commit and push from a GUI, just please learn the CLI as well. You don’t have to use it, but understanding it is important and the GUI may abstract away too much from you.
I agree, for a power user there is some value there.
I’ve used the git CLI, but find it a bit tedious. I also find a lot of value in the GUI providing an easy diff reference before a commit, at least in the app I use most of the time. There are some things the GUI can’t do, or it’s too weird to do, so the CLI is still handy.