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ThrowawayR2 on April 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

> "What makes the CLI interface to the compiler more essential of an abstraction than a GUI interface to the compiler?"

Build and CI systems don't go through a GUI IDE, making it required for developers to understand the CLI anyway.

shawnz on April 12, 2020 [–]

As an example, Maven support in Eclipse and IntelliJ don't call the Maven command line application, they operate entirely within the IDE.

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