Sounds more like "the challenge of using a mish-mash of non-integrated tools with no interface". Developers could definitively solve this by moving away from 70

Sounds more like "the challenge of using a mish-mash of non-integrated tools with no interface". Developers could definitively solve this by moving away from 70+ year old abstractions (files, terminal) towards things more in line with Smalltalk ideas. But I guess it's better to make thousands of beginners suffer each year, instead of admitting that the current way of doing things is conceptually flawed and outdated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LZ6TnSP40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LZ6TnSP40 https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.html https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.h... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJRwKOFddc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJRwKOFddc https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/awesome-pharo-ml https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/awesome-pharo-ml (And no, there is nothing special about copy-pasting commands and Unix pipelines that cannot be easily recreated in UI if the UI is designed to be programmable. )