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Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor by paxys on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:02PM (#27359635)
IMO part of the reason is cultural. Computing became mainstream only after the mouse and GUI were invented, but programmers have been at it since well before that. So now it's somewhat of a badge of honor that you can be as productive without the newer conveniences. This apples to any new tools or processes like IDEs or linting as well. There was a very distinguished engineer at my company who chastised young engineers for using graphical step-through debugging.
Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor by mixmastamyk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:09PM (#27359739)
Some actions are more productive at the keyboard. Other times I use the mouse.