You have done it hipsters. Thanks to you, we’re back in the 80’s and command line tooling is cool again – even for .NET development. Guess what else is hot? ASCII art! I’m contemplating adding some ASCII artwork on top of my C# code files, before heading out for the evening in my skinny jeans. That’s savage!

Jokes aside – the command line is really cool and powerful. And CLI tooling provides developers with lots of flexibility to aid in development and DevOps workflows, in addition to appealing to our inner geekiness. With the new .NET Core framework, the focus is squarely on CLI tooling to lower the barrier to entry and make .NET development accessible to all.

Whether you use Windows, OSX or Linux, the command line works the same way everywhere. Let us explore some of the new cross-platform .NET CLI tooling.

Full article over @ Telerik Developer Network.