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No CLI app is being robbed of anything, this is a layer over the top.

GUIs are very valuable because they can do things CLIs cannot, like show you at a glance what operations are available, promote the standard usecase of the CLI etc. Stuff that takes a bit of reading and clever typing with a CLI.

This tool allows you to quickly write a highly specific GUI that is using CLI app in the background.

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> like show you at a glance what operations are available, promote the standard usecase of the CLI etc.

I definitely agree with this. I think getting people up to speed on how to use a CLI tool would be a great use case for this.

I would probably use more cli tools if there was a clear GUI introduction that shows how the options map to the commands.

If the textual interface is hidden, you at least lose scriptability, aka the (near) sufficiency of performative skill in a task to automate that task.

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