Episode
SE Radio 702: Derick Schaefer on Modern CLIs
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Jan 7, 2026 · 48 min
Derick Schaefer , author of CLI: A Practical Guide to Creating Modern Command-Line Interfaces, talks with host Robert Blumen about command-line interfaces old and new. Starting with a short review of the origin of commands in the early unix systems, they trace the evolution of commands into modern CLIs. Following the historic rise, fall, and re-emergence of CLIs, they consider innovative…