28 Feb
2023
28 Feb
'23
2:04 a.m.
Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
I wonder to what extent this is a generational thing
though. Maybe
today’s twenty-somethings spend their days in front of Xcode, VStudio,
Eclipse, etc. more than using multiple terminals.
For sure. And it's also the 30- and 40-somethings. In my experience
over the past 18 years, almost nobody in those age groups is comfortable
with a terminal or screen editor, even though they often work in
environments where a command line is all they have (ssh, and/or
docker exec).
The IDE is for coding and searching files, and maybe Notepad++
for finding stuff in non-code files (log output).
IMHO the dependence upon IDEs is crippling; they cut & paste to the
almost total exclusion of the keyboard, including when shell completion
would be faster.
It's terribly sad.
Arnold