I won't criticize someone for making more interfaces for this software, but I like the prospect that more people have been and will be motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software like youtube-dl.
I couldn’t care less how those zones are defined and configured, could be a configuration file for all i care, but the end result would be much more potent than copying and pasting into terminal and then making sure it’s quoted or escaped properly.
I’m a huge fan of good CLIs. I’m also a huge fan of GUIs. Why require people to learn something just to use a video downloader?
Even for people who know how to use the command line, most of us still spend the day in a graphical desktop environment, and having a program that integrates with that environment is very valuable.
> but
please stop gatekeeping
> motivated to learn about command line interfaces in order to use powerful software
many people never get basic tech literacy. i think we’d benefit from not simply assuming others have (or could have) access to the same resources, time and patience that we had. i think you probably mean well but your statement, which sort of implies that people say “I am choosing not to learn the important skill of using the command line!”, just comes across as ignorant and naive to me
You're replying to a tangential “continuing the conversation”-type comment as though it were a rebuttal in an argument. It already agrees with you.
Unnecessarily hostile. We need less of this.