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Nothing is more satisfying than using Gum by Charm to make shell scripts interactive and fun. This is an example they provide where you can convert a video into a gif. Definitely check it out and play around with it!

Nothing is more satisfying than using Gum by Charm to make shell scripts interactive and fun. This is an example they provide where you can convert a video into a gif. Definitely check it out and play around with it!

https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

I love the aesthetics of this but what happens to shell history and easy composability with other CLI tools?

Totally fair, most things "just depend" haha. I do enjoy it a lot when spinning up new projects via bun or astro which walk through some basic options.

In all cases it definitely makes the CLI more accessible, which is a net positive for everyone!

It’s really up to you tbh! you can still have it return data to be piped into another command depending the script. I don’t make these for everything, usually just for stuff that would normally take way too long to type out for repeated tasks. Ultimately depends on your own flows and what you know you’ll need or want. 

It’s what has made the shell/terminal so good for so long: ultimate control 😎🔥