[griffordson]

>> but the command line is no longer the most efficient way of doing everything

> I agree with you, but the fact that most of the most gifted programmers I know usually gravitate towards some truly esoteric tools because of the complete control it affords them, negatively (sadly) impacts the rest of the programmers that look up to them

I spent years programming with Visual Studio and other IDEs that preceded it. I now work exclusively with "command line" tools because I can't physically use a mouse as my primary input device. I also use Linux now since it isn't possible to navigate OSX as efficiently as I can navigate using xmonad, tmux, and Vim on Linux.

It isn't an exaggeration to say that I owe my career, and my business, to the gifted programmers who maintained and improved the tools that I depend on now over the last several decades.

Is it possible the command line is the most efficient way of doing things and you just haven't discovered that yet?