I agree. But it's worth pointing out that IDEs provide depth for working on a given project. If you want to provide breadth across many projects (like writing

I agree. But it's worth pointing out that IDEs provide depth for working on a given project. If you want to provide breadth across many projects (like writing a custom linting script), you do want to be she'll literate. Not every automation task can be specified in with grep and such, but quite a number of them can. And the ones that can't be written in terms of the shell often benefit from hybrid solutions that combine shell tools and specialty tools like parsers.