Bash and Coreutils have been around a long time. A quick glance over the top could lead to the conclusion that they haven’t changed a lot going back several decades. I understand that they have evolved. However in light of how we are always talking about moving forward, and that’s certainly evident in the changes that have been made to Fedora Linux. I got wondering if there have been heir apparents identified for these or if someone is considering concepts.
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I see that there is something new. I read the articles on Fedora Magazine about Power Shell. That’s certainly a step in a good direction. There were some comments along the lines that it is too human language like. Personnally I see that as a plus. I’ll show my age a bit and say I really liked she CLI in Digital VMS (long gone). The commands were easy to understand and remember because they were very much like talking to the computer. I really miss my P(personal)VAX though I know the machines I have now are way more capable.
I think ultimately it would be good to be able to aurally talk to our machines in our native languages. However, given the state of voice recognition, that’s not going to happen soon. On the other hand given the state of “AI” I may be possible to talk to the command line with our keyboards using words we would use in a normal conversation with a human.
Sometimes I think the reason the existing CLIs are so entrenched is that it provides a way to keep the image of the Cumputer Masters alive. That attitude and associated reverence has been around since JCL on mainframe computers. Perhaps it’s time to move on.
I understand it’s a long road, Perhaps GUI apps to aide with common CLI tasks would be a good starting point. Back in F17 or so there were a few little apps That were part of the standard install.