GUIs are an anti-pattern
* avoid making new ones when you can
* avoid doing work to upgrade or support legacy ones
* avoid them as an enduser
There are some niches and narrow use cases where GUIs *are* a net win, if not utterly necessary. Obviously, I hope.
For everything else? Bias to and reach for (first) CLIs, REPLs, TUIs, APIs, etc
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