<story><title>Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting</title><url>https://www.feram.io/blog/2018-06-05_transity_the_future_of_plain_text_accounting/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyjk</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it is fair to say that git users loathe it overall. I enjoy using git, is this not a common experience?</text></item><item><author>jeremymcanally</author><text>Well, it&amp;#x27;s also non-sensical.  A CLI &amp;quot;interface&amp;quot; needs a lot of thought and work behind it, too, unless you want to end up loathed by your users as something like git is.</text></item><item><author>lquist</author><text>&lt;i&gt;CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don&amp;#x27;t have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, but I stopped reading here b&amp;#x2F;c this language struck me as unnecessarily antagonistic. Just some feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madhadron</author><text>I regard the command line as a last resort if I can&amp;#x27;t do something in SourceTree. After spending time with a quality source control client, any command line interface feels like wading through quicksand.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting</title><url>https://www.feram.io/blog/2018-06-05_transity_the_future_of_plain_text_accounting/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyjk</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it is fair to say that git users loathe it overall. I enjoy using git, is this not a common experience?</text></item><item><author>jeremymcanally</author><text>Well, it&amp;#x27;s also non-sensical.  A CLI &amp;quot;interface&amp;quot; needs a lot of thought and work behind it, too, unless you want to end up loathed by your users as something like git is.</text></item><item><author>lquist</author><text>&lt;i&gt;CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don&amp;#x27;t have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, but I stopped reading here b&amp;#x2F;c this language struck me as unnecessarily antagonistic. Just some feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticautomatic</author><text>I think it would be fair to say that a lot of people have a love&amp;#x2F;hate relationship with git.</text></comment>