Comment by guerrilla
6 months ago
What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal. Another way of putting it is why would I need an IDE other than UNIX (GNU) itself?
> But going further back, to the Turbo days in college and my first few years working, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, watches etc were a godsend
gdb does all of that.
I can also walk 13 miles or get in my car and drive. So why do I need a car?
GDB does guaranteed safe refactors over large code bases?
>> What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal.
Why do you need a terminal for if you can do all that with flipping switches and looking at LEDs?
Because working in an IDE is an order of magnitude easier than with UNIX tools, especially for novices, significantly increasing productivity. The author also covers this a bit.