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What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal. Another way of putting it is why would I need an IDE other than UNIX (GNU) itself? > B
by guerrilla 1y ago
What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal. Another way of putting it is why would I need an IDE other than UNIX (GNU) itself?
> But going further back, to the Turbo days in college and my first few years working, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, watches etc were a godsend
gdb does all of that.
- miohtama 1y agoBecause working in an IDE is an order of magnitude easier than with UNIX tools, especially for novices, significantly increasing productivity. The author also covers this a bit.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoI can also walk 13 miles or get in my car and drive. So why do I need a car? GDB does guaranteed safe refactors over large code bases?
- nec4b 1y ago>> What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal. Why do you need a terminal for if you can do all that with flipping switches and looking at LEDs?