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by jstanley 3825 days ago
"Now why the command-line is not the main choice among developers?"

It depends who you speak to. Where I work, almost everybody uses the command line.

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And people using IDEs sometimes use the command line even if they think they are not. Example: a team I trained to Ruby on Rails recently was using Ruby Mine, an IDE for Ruby. Nearly all the advanced stuff (rake this, rake that) involved looking for some menu entry and typing in the rake arguments. If they had an open terminal in the project directory they'd get those tasks done much quickly. Obviously they resisted the idea.