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4 Reasons Why Console Applications Are Great

Claudio Bernasconi on April 12, 2019

Why should you care about writing a console application in 2019 where everyone is talking about user experience, artificial intelligence (AI) and w...
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Eddy Young

I love console applications!

I used to write a lot of small C# console applications for quick tasks, but nowadays I tend to use PowerShell more.

I remember back in 2009, at a company I worked for, I was tasked with writing a small utility to trigger a more complex task. When I submitted program.cs for review with instructions to csc program.cs to compile the program, the feedback I got was, "what is this sh*t?" The reviewer was used to web application development only.

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Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez

Few months ago I wrote a website for the family to take notes and such used firebase as a backend for it. While it worked for my family it didn't work much for me though I don't get too much on the website but I decided to give it a go with a console based app (with node though) but it was indeed a fun experience! and I do actually use that more often :)

I think I'll give it a go on C#