| ▲ | guerrilla 15 hours 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. | ||
| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
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? | ||
| ▲ | miohtama 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
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. | ||
| ▲ | nec4b 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>> 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? | ||