The big thing you can do from the command line is script it.

I used to think something like this when I was younger. I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for good gui versions of cli tools. I have come to understand that this is not usually the case and cli tools are more convenient much of the time. I would not classify this as superiority complex, unless I’m being a jerk about it. I don’t care what you use, I just use whatever has the lowest barrier to entry with the most standardization, which is usually the original cli tool.

That said, jetbrains git integration is awesome.

There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:

• The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
• Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
• Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc

So while I agree with you that there's plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.

Just no. CLI can be automated, which makes it superior. It's not a superiority complex, it's a fact. I'm not a minimal wage worker pushing buttons I don't understand. I'm not a technician who learnt your shitty software to do the most basic tasks.

My gold standard app is a CLI where I have the option to visually add the flags. I'm thinking of the ytdlp-gui type programs.

Aside from automation, CLI can support significantly more complicated apps reliably. It can also be tested more reliably.

GUIs are better for anything simple, and good UX designers can make a moderately complex one, but anything like server administration/git/configs are 100x better on CLI

This depends a lot on the GUI and the tool. Some cli tools are great alone or for scripting, others benefit from the extra attention to ux and exposure of options that a GUI can offer

For git in particular, I encourage juniors to learn and use the CLI. I find that GUI git clients often do some or all of the following:

• Use non-git terminology that ends up being confusing. "Sync" comes to mind as a frequent offender, I can think of several incompatible things that could refer to.

• Ignore the useful ability to stage your changes

• Don't permit or encourage a review of the changes

• Implement only the basics and make remediation of branching issues difficult

In the worst case, I've seen people end up using the git GUI like a "save" button, blindly commiting and pushing the current state of their code, including to-be-removed print statements and other cruft. Yeah, git cli is a bit complex compared to that, but you gain a lot for that added complexity.

That said, I've definitely jumped into a git GUI from time to time just for a visualization of whenever branching snafu I'm trying to untangle. None of the above invalidates GUIs if you take care to still understand the underlying tool properly!

I don't know, a tool we use at my work has a git GUI integrated, and it breaks all the time, lol.