this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
23 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

27909 readers
194 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
UlrikHD@programming.dev
bugsmith@programming.dev
Spyro@programming.dev
23
Do any of you Windows users leverage CLI tools much? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 21 hours ago by treadful@lemmy.zip to c/programming@programming.dev
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I built a service whose primary client is a CLI program. I was thinking about building that client for Windows as well (not just WSL). My target users are generally technically-proficient so I'd rather not build a whole GUI app if it's unnecessary. But I honestly have no idea how often Windows users use CLI tools beyond some Windows admin stuff.

So if Windows is your daily driver, how often do you leverage the shell and how unusual would it be to use CLI tools in your workflows?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly I guess I'm wondering if porting the CLI client would be useful or if a GUI client would be required to get any traction on Windows.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Ah I see. That definitely depends on what it is and who your target audience is. I would say you can be quite technically proficient in Windows without being very familiar with the command line because a) the Windows command line sucks (even Powershell is kind of awful), and b) there are so many great GUI tools available, you almost never need to resort to the command line.

So yeah, just depends where you want to draw the line and what it is that you're making.