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Re:Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code a... by heavyset_go on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:58AM (#45446436)
There was a period in the early-mid 2000s where CLIs were considered passe and an emblem of the past. Some developers relied solely on graphical IDEs on GUI-oriented operating systems, and the transition to Linux everywhere broke that trend. Some people didn't take Linux seriously because it was CLI oriented.
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Re:Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code a... by Gud on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:00AM (#45449070)
I don’t remember that at all.

Maybe in some circles.

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Re:Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code a... by ok123456 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:16PM (#45451681)
Windows and Java developers used Visual Studio and Eclipse. Everyone else used command-line tools.
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Re:Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code a... by jd115 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:09AM (#45449148)
Funny, I've totally missed this.
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Re:Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code a... by heavyset_go on Thursday October 02, 2025 @02:26PM (#45453437)
I was in an area with a lot of Windows and Java shops where this mentality percolated.

You don't remember the period where Linux was considered a joke compared to NT or "real" unices? Maybe I was just around a lot of elitists.

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