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Things like this really drive home to me how thoroughly Windows relegates the CLI to being a second-class citizen. In some ways it almost feels like some of the products of overly-optimistic 1960s-era futurism, like [designing a fighter jet without a machine gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II?useskin=vector) because we have guided missiles now, and _obviously_ those are better, right? But no, in fact it turns out that sometimes a gun was _actually_ preferable to a guided missile, because surprise! Different tools have different strengths and weaknesses.
Of course, if Microsoft had been in charge of the F-4 it would have [taken them 20 years](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/) finally add the machine gun, and when they did it would haved fired at a 30-degree angle off from the heading of the jet, so I guess we can be thankful that we aren't engaging in air-to-air dogfights with our terminal emulators, or something.
Of course, if Microsoft had been in charge of the F-4 it would have [taken them 26 years](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/) finally add the machine gun, and when they did it would haved fired at a 30-degree angle off from the heading of the jet, so I guess we can be thankful that we aren't engaging in air-to-air dogfights with our terminal emulators, or something.