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How I use my terminal

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538 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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pjmlp ◴[24 Jun 25 05:59 UTC] No.44363232[source]▶
As someone that was happy that I could finally afford owning computers with a graphics display on them, this going back to the terminal doesn't stop surprising me.

We still do horses, but hardly anyone is favouring them for travelling around the continent delivering mail.

Kudos to the people that would rather experience that, I guess.

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1. yoz-y ◴[24 Jun 25 06:34 UTC] No.44363403[source]▶
I started coding using Borland Pascal on DOS. I went through many tools and in the end split the terminal / UI work depending on whether the language is actually bound to an IDE or a build system.

E.g.: not using Xcode for iOS dev doesn’t make much sense to me. At work we have a fully set-up IDE that works with our build system. I like QtCreator for C++.

But for web dev, scripting and blog writing, I find programs like VSCode extremely slow even with just minimal plugins. After a couple of years I got fed up and went back to vim in terminal.