I did not know any of the programs mentioned in the post, but some of them seem really nice. Can someone who thinks aliases are a better solution please explain why they think so and what is their advantage over these projects? Do they have any pitfalls that you are aware of?
I believe that if I use a command sparsely enough, I will forget the created alias name just a few days later than the actual command.
This also seems to be great for low-bandwidth mobile connections. The advantage over reader mode here is that only the plain text is sent and not all the images, large styles and scripts…