[zahlman]

At the time, the users were the programmers.

[amelius]

This is misleading because you use plural for both and I'm sure most of these UX missteps were _each_ made by a _single_ person, and there were >1 users even at the time.

[Msurrow]

I think he meant that at that time all users were programmers. Yes, _all_ .

[ifh-hn]

> and there were >1 users even at the time.

Are you sure there wasn't >&1 users... Sorry I'll get my coat.

[NooneAtAll3]

did you mean to write "<1"?

[andoando]

programmers are people too! bash syntax just sucks

[booi]

arguably if you're using the CLI they still are

[spiralcoaster]

Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.

[spott]

Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.

[kube-system]

nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins