Nice writeup. Since she mentioned how hard it is to learn these conventions, I'll plug my preferred reference when thinking about CLIs specifically (rather than TUIs and REPLs) - the Command Line Interface Guidelines https://clig.dev
It does include the blog post's rules on exiting on Ctrl-C, accepting `-` for stdin, disabling color in pipes, and much more.
It does include the blog post's rules on exiting on Ctrl-C, accepting `-` for stdin, disabling color in pipes, and much more.