Discord has pretty much figured out how to give CLIs an actual UX with their bots and slash commands.
Midjourney is the largest of the Discord apps that have achieved mainstream usage, despite being CLI-only.
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Bots and slash commands have been a staple of chat for decades before Discord.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_co...
They’re no different from other CLIs, UX-wise. But because they are intermingled with chat, you can ask for help from a human right there.
This is funny on multiple levels. For one, it is IRC that introduced these commands decades ago, as others have observed. The second is that the Discord "UX", especially for Midwinter, is atrocious. You couldn't pay me to use it.
I think pr337h4m is pointing out that Discord commands can return much more than text. Unlike in a terminal, the result of a command can be rich text, images, videos, and syntax highlighted code.
I'd like to make a correction. I meant to say Midjourney. Midwinter was an interesting game set in a snow-covered post-apocalyptic world induced by a meteorite strike in 2040.
Slash commands predate Discord by large.
Huh? The UX is pretty much the same as in the terminal; "Here is a command, a small snippet of help text and a bunch of options, figure it out", not sure what Discord improved upon here. Autocomplete?