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Anyone else use TERMINAL for nearly ALL development tasks?

I use xcode as a notebook and then command line tools for ev...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
maybe paradise is successfully returning to bare-metal assem...
Onyx yarmulke clown
  11/24/25
no thats too far. I need modern tools, but I want the minima...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
yeah now at 100% terminal usage - VSC > Cursor > Ghost...
Marvelous slimy gas station
  11/24/25
I would just use terminal 100% but nano sucks for editing co...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
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Marvelous slimy gas station
  11/24/25
Ur using straight terminal and not even vim or something sim...
Sinister sooty sandwich
  11/24/25
well I use xcode to actually write and edit files, but only ...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
I use WSL with VS Code. Everything else is whatever I don&rs...
garnet trip theatre sound barrier
  11/24/25
mac os terminal is fine i can do everything on it that I can...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
I love men
Exciting Navy School
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Marvelous slimy gas station
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Exciting Navy School
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Swollen cerebral piazza
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Histrionic Pea-brained Den
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Exciting Navy School
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I use VS Code + Codex CLI and still do most work from the te...
Bull Headed Multi-colored Old Irish Cottage Theater
  11/24/25
i haven't tried codex yet. I have been meaning to for a long...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
haven't made that jump yet VS Code is the only good thing...
pontificating zippy lettuce
  11/24/25
its okay but I don't use any of the "extensions" o...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
I didn't realize I had a choice
confused business firm
  11/24/25
I use vs code on windows. Its better than visual basic i lea...
Fuchsia Faggotry
  11/24/25
what languages do you know or use?
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
Go & Rust
Fuchsia Faggotry
  11/24/25
never used either of those so no idea how you might want to ...
Swollen cerebral piazza
  11/24/25
Me neither lol
Fuchsia Faggotry
  11/24/25
Go back to China
confused business firm
  11/24/25


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Date: November 24th, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

I use xcode as a notebook and then command line tools for everything else. I hate all of these modern bloatware "IDEs". Visual Studio is gay too not just because its only on Windows but it just is. I use docker and cloud containers for some stuff too. But never IDEs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455580)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: Onyx yarmulke clown

maybe paradise is successfully returning to bare-metal assembly code or even straight-up mechanical implementations with no code at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455589)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:03 AM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

no thats too far. I need modern tools, but I want the minimal implementation. so xcode (just as a coding notebook for editing files and protoyping, but not any of its IDE features) and then terminal for git, custom build scripts cmake or whatever, package management, compile/lint/type style checking etc. fits the bill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455594)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:03 AM
Author: Marvelous slimy gas station

yeah now at 100% terminal usage - VSC > Cursor > Ghostty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455593)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:05 AM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

I would just use terminal 100% but nano sucks for editing code. i know some people use vim or some of the other terminal based editors but those are gay too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455598)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:00 PM
Author: Marvelous slimy gas station



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:04 AM
Author: Sinister sooty sandwich

Ur using straight terminal and not even vim or something similar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455595)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:05 AM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

well I use xcode to actually write and edit files, but only because nano and vim suck or I would use them. everything else i use terminal for.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455599)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:05 AM
Author: garnet trip theatre sound barrier

I use WSL with VS Code. Everything else is whatever I don’t care. Btw I fucking hate Homebrew + Mac OS Terminal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455596)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 9:10 AM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

mac os terminal is fine i can do everything on it that I can do in linux. i dont really use homebrew because its gay and causes library conflicts. I just clone things, handle cmake, dependencies etc myself unless I absolutely can't get around it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49455608)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: Exciting Navy School

I love men

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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:00 PM
Author: Marvelous slimy gas station



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: Exciting Navy School



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: Exciting Navy School



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:42 PM
Author: Histrionic Pea-brained Den



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:48 PM
Author: Exciting Navy School



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Date: November 24th, 2025 1:05 PM
Author: pontificating zippy lettuce



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Date: November 24th, 2025 2:10 PM
Author: Exciting Navy School



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Date: November 24th, 2025 11:49 AM
Author: Bull Headed Multi-colored Old Irish Cottage Theater

I use VS Code + Codex CLI and still do most work from the terminal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456077)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:42 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

i haven't tried codex yet. I have been meaning to for a long time like 4 versions ago when the first one came out when o4 or whatever was frontier, but I never got around to it. how is it? I have never even seen videos of it before so I am honestly kind of ignorant as to what it even does, although I have heard it can pretty much take control over your terminal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456267)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: pontificating zippy lettuce

haven't made that jump yet

VS Code is the only good thing Microsoft has done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456096)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:47 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

its okay but I don't use any of the "extensions" or most of the other features like the gui git stuff. so it ends up just being a notebook with a terminal at the bottom.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456284)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: confused business firm

I didn't realize I had a choice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456273)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 1:10 PM
Author: Fuchsia Faggotry

I use vs code on windows. Its better than visual basic i learned as a teen at least. I'd like to move my dev stuff to mac os but I'm too lazy to look into how to do it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456346)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

what languages do you know or use?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456370)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Fuchsia Faggotry

Go & Rust

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456378)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 2:22 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral piazza

never used either of those so no idea how you might want to set up an environment or tools on mac for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456636)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 2:33 PM
Author: Fuchsia Faggotry

Me neither lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456678)



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Date: November 24th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: confused business firm

Go back to China

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801731&forum_id=2в#49456753)