I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Don't get me wrong, I can commit and do a lot of stuff with the git terminal commands, but why not leverage visual interfaces?
Because there are a million different visual interfaces, and one day you'll switch IDEs or want to do something you can't find a button for and you'll be frustrated
Because you likely can't automate most of it
Because you'll probably need a bigger screen
Or in cases like mine, perhaps you find most visual interfaces confusing?
If you are familiar with git any GUI would do
In what sense automate? I don't know what git commands you use every day, but for me, it's 9/10 times nothing fancy
I do see why you could find some of them confusing, it's a matter of what everyone personally likes better
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
For example, I have a few scripts that fetch changes and start/manage features based on Jira ticket numbers.
There may well be a VSCode plugin for that, and a Jetbrains plugin, and a Sublime plugin, etc., etc., but I don't need to learn a new language to make them. I can just copy my script and it'll work, and it's infinitely hackable because it's my own script.
Or in cases like mine, perhaps you find most visual interfaces confusing?
If you are familiar with git any GUI would do
In what sense automate? I don't know what git commands you use every day, but for me, it's 9/10 times nothing fancy
I do see why you could find some of them confusing, it's a matter of what everyone personally likes better
For example, I have a few scripts that fetch changes and start/manage features based on Jira ticket numbers.
There may well be a VSCode plugin for that, and a Jetbrains plugin, and a Sublime plugin, etc., etc., but I don't need to learn a new language to make them. I can just copy my script and it'll work, and it's infinitely hackable because it's my own script.
That actually sounds awesome Ben!
I'm all for hacking your own scripts and making your life easier.
You should share some of those ideas here on dev.to 🤟