Comment by zahlman

10 hours ago

At the time, the users were the programmers.

This is misleading because you use plural for both and I'm sure most of these UX missteps were _each_ made by a _single_ person, and there were >1 users even at the time.

arguably if you're using the CLI they still are

  • Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.

  • Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.

  • nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins