Comment by curt15
6 hours ago
CLI tools are not to be feared or considered somehow hacky. However much big tech wants people to think that computing is all about some magic apps, Mac OS is still unix, and composing specialized programs together is very much in the spirit of the unix approach to computing.
> CLI tools are not to be feared or considered somehow hacky.
I agree, you're on a *nix OS, calling a CLI tool should be a perfectly valid way to do something.
IMO the real issue is that Apple's built-in CLI tools aren't properly integrated with the rest of the system. Apple's curl used to use the same certificate store as the rest of the OS, then Apple changed it.