At the time, the users were the programmers.

This is misleading because you use plural for both and I'm sure most of these UX missteps were _each_ made by a _single_ person, and there were >1 users even at the time.

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Msurrow 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think he meant that at that time all users were programmers. Yes, _all_ .

	▲	zahlman 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It was a bit of an over-generalization, but yes that's basically what I was going for.

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ifh-hn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> and there were >1 users even at the time.

Are you sure there wasn't >&1 users... Sorry I'll get my coat.

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andoando 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

programmers are people too! bash syntax just sucks

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booi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

arguably if you're using the CLI they still are

	▲	spiralcoaster 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.
	▲	spott 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.
	▲	kube-system 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins