From cb67c97a6f9221dd118ffe2f84d57118af4988fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvio Rhatto Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:59:39 -0300 Subject: The New Command Line Manifesto --- cli.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 cli.mdwn 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. -- cgit v1.2.3