The Modern CLI Renaissance

Chris Coyier Chris Coyier on

CLIs are so hot right now.

Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015.

Gabe Venberg

Why? Gabe thinks it might be proliferation of tooling written in Go and Rust, and the fact that they both have healthy package ecosystems.

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