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| author | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2016-09-07 12:59:39 -0300 |
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| committer | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2016-09-07 12:59:39 -0300 |
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The New Command Line Manifesto
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diff --git a/cli.mdwn b/cli.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dd9c01 --- /dev/null +++ b/cli.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!meta title="The New Command Line Manifesto"]] + +Idea: let all new commands to support also machine-readable +formats as inputs and outputs. + +This, along with UNIX pipes and daemon interfacing, brings CLI +to a new era of services that are: + +* Still based on small programs that do one thing but one thing right. +* But also are capable of interacting with each other in an uniform way. + +So let them support parameters like `--json` and `--yaml` for it's I/O. + +In other words, with parsers and serializers it's possible to keep an +ecosystem of UNIX microservices interacting with each other using a +consistent API. |