> I wonder if introducing newbies to makefiles and vim is super empowering, or ends up gatekeeping by making it look "as complicated as you feared it would be."

> I wonder if introducing newbies to makefiles and vim is super empowering, or ends up gatekeeping by making it look "as complicated as you feared it would be." This tutorial introduces Vim only after introducing shell and pipes. I was wrong about makefiles -- this tutorial doesn't include makefiles (I was thinking about Software Carpentry [1], which has similar goals). In any case, learning Vim isn't hard as people make it out to be, and one can easily skip that part of the tutorial to come back to at a later point without breaking the continuity. [1]: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/index.html https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/index.html