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Comment by zahlman

9 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