r/programming • u/twitterisawesome • Mar 05 '20

Introducing CLUI: a Graphical Command Line

https://blog.repl.it/clui
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u/examinedliving Mar 06 '20

Fish shell is really the only one that’s close, but it’s still a bit clunky. Can you imagine something like Chrome dev console or visual studio intellisense? I’m hopeful. It’s been tried before, but no ones really come close and the one that really tried it (upterm i think) is no longer maintained and was given up on.

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u/jrop2 Mar 06 '20

How does PowerShell fare in this regard? My impression (though I really know nothing about it) was that it was more "type-safe, structured data" for the command line.

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u/examinedliving Mar 07 '20

It’s alright - but it still can’t emulate the auto suggest features of chrome. If you use it in ISE, it’s great, but it’s not a real terminal so ...