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Question for OP: why do you like terminals/CLI applications? What are your needs?

For me, CLI applications are nice because of their ability to interface with others with things like arguments, stdout etc. Dumb and simple to string together a series of applications that feed into each other to give you what you want.

Desktop apps don't focus on that or if inclined would set up rigid interfaces that require communication over IP (read: expensive and inflexible)

Mobile apps grew into this and so will VR/AR/XR.

My call to action would be to encourage you to develop smaller, useful components that others can run to string together their own experiences/solutions.

In mobile apps, this would be providing more integrations to IFTTT or iOS's shortcuts.

My use cases would be to dump information out of apps and grep them. Just give me a damn file I can grep!



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