CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)
"Terminals, the primary platform for command-lines, are intimidating and feel like a black box to non-technical people."<p>That's learned helplessness.<p>My mother, who is a distinctly non-technical person, learned to use IRC when she was 60. Why? Because her friends were already using it. She wrote down a series of commands that her friends sent her in email, carried them out, and then spent years happily chatting with them.<p>Humans are very good at learning complex things when they see something they want at the end of it.