cli.mdwn

[[!meta title="The New Command Line Manifesto"]]

Idea: let all new commands to support also machine-readable
formats as inputs and outputs.

This, along with UNIX pipes and daemon interfacing, brings CLI
to a new era of services that are:

* Still based on small programs that do one thing but one thing right.
* But also are capable of interacting with each other in an uniform way.

So let them support parameters like `--json` and `--yaml` for it's I/O.

In other words, with parsers and serializers it's possible to keep an
ecosystem of UNIX microservices interacting with each other using a
consistent API.