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Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by lysdexic to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Philosophy section has quite a few wonky arguments; I'd skip it altogether.

Guidelines is pretty succinct and has many rules-of-thumb that almost any software would benefit from. That's including CLI, GUI, libraries -- even hardware if you take a bit of a step back.

[–] lysdexic 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Philosophy section has quite a few wonky arguments; I’d skip it altogether.

I agree. I wish they moved that to a standalone section so that it could be easily skipable. Reference docs can and should have a rationale, but a lengthy rant is not what leads people to the site.