On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 17:25:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 05:04:20PM +0000, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:28:45 +0000, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Given that I have been an IDE fan since the Amiga days, I
> fully
> agree.
>
> Every time I am on UNIX I feel like a time travel to the
> days of
> yore.
being on non-nix system is a torture. there aren't even gcc,
let alone
emacs/vim.
Yeah, I've become so accustomed to the speed of keyboard-based
controls
that every time I use my wife's Windows laptop, I feel so
frustrated at
the rodent dependence and its slowness that I want to throw the
thing
out the window.
But at another level, it's not even about keyboard vs.
rodent... it's
about *scriptability*. It's about abstraction. Typing commands
at the
CLI, while on the surface looks so tedious, actually has a
powerful
advantage:
clip
Ultimately, I think rodent-based UIs will go the way of the
dinosaur.
While I may not share you optimism for the future, I do agree the
CLI is almost always better:o)
One big advantage to CLI stuff is that when you come up against
some tricky configuration, or rarely used command, you can write
a little script (with comments) describing how to do it (and WHY
you did it that way). Very handy for those tasks that you end up
doing once every X months, and always forget the details of in
between. How do you do that with a GUI? Make a video or open up
OpenOffice/MS Word and start taking screen shots. Painful stuff.
Same goes for configuration files which beat GUI-based
configuration hands down.
Having said all that having IDE-like, language aware,
code-completion and background compilation, and a good debugger
are a big plus for productivity in many cases.
