&gt; &quot;However, &quot;the thing that won uses text, so naturally we gotta get rid of text&quot; doesn&#x27;t sound like a wise plan.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d argue the Unix command line ecosystem has only &#x27;won&#x27; in the sense that many developers are familiar with it. I don&#x27;t think it is technically the best we could do if we were starting from a blank slate.