If you had to program by point-and-click, I think you'd find it very slow and cumbersome (in spite of valiant efforts to make this kind of thing work, like ligh

If you had to program by point-and-click, I think you'd find it very slow and cumbersome (in spite of valiant efforts to make this kind of thing work, like lighttable). Your immediate reaction in the face of a task to do something conceptually simple, but with an annoying number of little steps, is to reach for a programming language and build it in your IDE. It would be more convenient, really, if you had an IDE that was specifically designed to work with all the other applications on your system, rather than just with whatever language you're using and its libraries. And there is such a thing: the shell! With things like tab-completion, history, aliases, and man pages, the unix command line interface basically already is an IDE. While I don't yet have enough experience with it to say for sure, it seems like PowerShell is intended to be similar, even going so far as to have a literal IDE (PowerShell ISE). There's a reason why IDEs always seem to have a built-in terminal, and why those which didn't at first seem to grow terminal-like capabilities, like VS Code's command palette.