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Microsoft gives workflow builders a command line, because the cloud needs a desk
· New York time
Microsoft has released a public preview of a command-line extension for Azure Logic Apps Standard. The tool supports local project creation, workflow authoring, connector management, run inspection and test scaffolding, bringing development tasks into a local command-line workflow. Logic Apps helps developers build workflows that connect services. The new extension gives teams another way to create and inspect that work, including through tools and routines centered on a terminal. The tasks previously required the VS Code extension, according to the reporting. For developers who prefer repeatable commands, the preview offers another way to incorporate the work into existing practices. Microsoft's product team also presents the terminal interface as a way to make AI-assisted development more deterministic. A preview is still a preview, and teams considering it will need to assess how it fits their projects. The change is not that cloud software has suddenly become less cloudlike. It is that more work on a cloud workflow can start closer to the developer's own machine. The arrangement has a pleasingly familiar shape. An industry spent years explaining that computing was moving away from the local desk, then added a better way to work from the local desk. Progress is sometimes a grand migration. Sometimes it is making sure the person doing the work can type a command without opening another elaborate window.
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