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Re:Development Environments by nomel on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:22PM (#31927372)
> the terminal provides a very fast feedback loop where I can iteratively examine the output of a command and refine the filters I apply

An IDE would be used to develop those commands, more than compose them.

> text to be the only format for exchanging information

For this to work, with non-text data, you end up using the file system as a buffer, then passing filepaths between commands. For many contexts, this isn't performant enough.

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