When I saw this post, I knew was getting old. The post was about why every developer should learn to use the command line in 2024. My reaction was, “Say what!?!” To me, it was like saying every baby should learn to breath. How could you survive otherwise?
Yes, your Aunt Millie doesn’t need to use the command line and can depend on a GUI to read her email and navigate the Internet. But your Aunt Millie is not a developer and has needs very different from those of us that are.
The idea that a professional developer wouldn’t need to know how to work with the command line is completely foreign to me. It’s not that you should use the command line for every task—I mostly use Emacs for the majority of the things I would have used the command line before—but sometimes the command line is the right answer and if you don’t know how to use it, you’re not really ready to eat at the adult table.
Maxime’s post is an excellent explanation of why you should learn to use the command line. If you aren’t currently proficient with the command line, you should read it to discover why you should be.
You can call me a gray beard or a dinosaur but any experienced developer will tell you the same. You don’t have to do everything on the command line but there are some things that are best done that way and you really need to be able to use it when appropriate.