> but I see no value in this over just copying and pasting the terminal output
Animated tutorial-like ‶videos″ of CLI that are much smaller than gifs/mp4s.
I can't share them because they're not openn-source, but I made quite a few of those for consumption by other teams within my company, and they were always very much appreciated.
You may find it silly, but the wow effect is very efficient to onboard people.
For true CLIs I don't see much practical benefit. A little bit in seeing live input and output, which can implicitly show things like "this supports tab completion" or "this step takes a minute to run", but that's weighted against being harder to skim and harder to handle (I can inline terminal output in a README with zero extra tools, effort, or dependencies). That said, I could see it being really useful for TUIs.
I assume this must be a drive-by comment without actually going to the website, because in the middle of the page, in an h1 tag, is the feature: "Copy & paste"
Animated tutorial-like ‶videos″ of CLI that are much smaller than gifs/mp4s.
I can't share them because they're not openn-source, but I made quite a few of those for consumption by other teams within my company, and they were always very much appreciated.
You may find it silly, but the wow effect is very efficient to onboard people.