On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Completely agree with that but I don't think command line
experience
makes me atypical since developer types are part of the explicitly
stated focus of the workstation.
To be fair (and maybe a pain in the butt, sorry) - even when I was in
computer science classes using Visual Studio (those were dark days) we
had to use the command line to run our apps. I know that relatively
speaking in the world of tech that is a very long time ago. Is
programming so different than that now that you can do it
professionally / seriously without command line tools (or without
wanting to use command line tools?)
Here's some real-life developers who aren't as niche as us (or at least
not in our niche!)
http://madelin.woods.usesthis.com/ - (developer for square) "I write my
code in Sublime Text 2 (tricked out with a ton of extra installed
packages), use iTerm2 for my terminal"
http://jennifer.wong.usesthis.com/ - (developer for Zillow / HotPads)
"I run git directly in Terminal, so I can learn its intricacies better
and I have a bunch of my personal projects committed to my GitHub
account."
http://adam.wiggins.usesthis.com/ - (founder / developer Heroku) "For
web development, my go-to stack for many years has been Vim, Git, Ruby,
Bundler, Sinatra, Postgres, Sequel, GitHub, Heroku, and S3."
http://brendan.gregg.usesthis.com/ - (Netflix perf engineer) "I use a
lot of somewhat standard software. For word processing, I do a lot of
my writing in the vim text editor. I wrote my last book in vim, for the
drafts, before they become OpenOffice and Word documents, which I use
as well. "
http://george.nachman.usesthis.com/ - (Google search app developer)
"For coding, I use vim when possible and XCode when necessary. Most
desktop GUIs do more harm than good, and I'd rather hang out in a TTY
all day."
http://yuri.victor.usesthis.com/ - (UX/dev at Vox Media) "I spend most
of my time on the command line full screen 4 windows at once opened
with a hotkey, but use Mac OS X because I can type things like "open
Photoshop," which I use mainly for making funnies on Twitter."
http://diana.kimball.usesthis.com/ (SoundCloud developer) "I also spend
a lot of time in Terminal; I write code in vim and recently switched to
using fish as my shell."
I could go on, but you get the point.
Here and there you'll see a dev profiled on that site who uses Linux,
but it's almost invariably Ubuntu (I found one Debian.)
~m