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> Game industry.

Aside from that being an entire industry as opposed to a single company, are you not aware that BigCo games generally contain a developer console of some sort? Even the ones that don't provide end user access to it still usually have one buried somewhere.

Plus many of the dev tools for manipulating assets are either CLI based or have one integrated ...

You said a business not an industry.

Exactly, I said business, not company. Gaming is a business, Apple is a company. Understand the difference?

The fact that nearly everyone misunderstood you indicates that you didn't communicate well. A trillion dollar business suggests a singular wherein a singular could be a single corporation or industry in common usage. Without surrounding context to the contrary it isn't trivial to distinguish the intentions.

The game industry uses CLIs in text adventure games, besides all their development tools. Many games put out utilities to enhance thier games, some of which have CLIs.

- ImageMagick

- Optipng

- ffmpeg

- sox

And so on.