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by vips7L 2288 days ago
How do you as a developer never use a shell? I'm genuinely curious. How do you compile, install dependencies, etc?
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I didn't say I never use a shell - I even explicitly excluded WSL.

When developing software in Windows, however, there's simply no need.

> How do you compile

I press F6 in my IDE.

> install dependencies

I click "Add nu-get package"

> etc. [I assume version control operations and the like]

Again, I simply use the built-in tools of my IDE of choice which are usually bound to hotkeys.

This is hard to fathom, especially for modern web development, but I don't do web development and the embedded systems I work with don't have a shell while the GUI programs have, well, graphical interfaces :)

> When developing software in Windows, however, there's simply no need.

This tells more about your skils then anything else. If there is NO NEED for that in your world, there is defintelly a NEED for you to dive into it - something you don't know you can't use or find a need for it.

Integrated development environments, or IDEs for short.
Its double work. You mandatory need CLI for build server anyway, and you generally DONT need IDE for anything