[bauerd]

>a terminal does not a pleasant user experience make

Author doesn't establish this, just takes it as a given. I wonder what features terminal emulators/editor programs would lack that are afforded by GUIs? I consider the terminal text editing experience far more efficient

[bipinu]

Efficient is not necessarily a pleasant user experience though, is it? I am not downplaying anyone's preference of one over the other. However, a better UX would mean that the initial learning curve to start with something should be low, which isn't usually with terminals.

[carlmr]

>However, a better UX would mean that the initial learning curve to start with something should be low, which isn't usually with terminals.

Depends how you define better. If you do something very often a steep learning curve with long term payoff can be the better UX seen as a whole.

I use almost only VSCode mind you, but I can see the argument here. I know a bit of vim and it is practical when configuring servers via PUTTY. For bigger projects I find it very lacking.

[WilliamEdward]

Usually? File handling. It's convenient on large projects to have a list of files in view next to the code.

[mpfundstein]

Nerdtree for vim? Emacs out of the box ... Wtf. This stuff is decades old

[taylodl]

They’re awesome because they’re decades old. That’s a lot of time to get things just the way developers like them.