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I have always used winforms to do my projects but I have never really explored the console application. I have seen some videos of different programs done in console applications for example, games, engines, display images using the keyboard keys and more but what exactly is a console app for?
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Really console applications have a history – in the days when a console, which may have been a teletype with a single output line, to a tty style console with a several line screen was the main UI for computers from mainframes to personal computers running CP/M, DOS or one of almost hundreds of different operating systems.
Whilst @james_schorr is parially correct, some technical people still find console apps to be efficient ways of performing certain sorts of operations – even with user interaction. For example I use git and mercurial from the command line in preference to a UI like tortoise.
They have some advantages (especially on Unix and Linux) because you can combine the commands in scripts using pipes (i.e. where standard out of one is fed directly into standard input of the next) to form very powerful operations.