Why doing simple when you can make it complicated? Over time we've rather slowly moved from CLI (MS-Dos, Unix) to IDE. And now we're rushing back to CLI again. Everything is CLI now. Why? IMO, esp. the open-source community, with so many people adding their own little brick, exotic requirement, ego-trip, or whatever, is probably to blame. The whole thing ends up being one big bloated confusion of options and possibilities. Like an exaggerated Swiss army knife which next to the knife and screwdriver also has a chainsaw, axe, and whatnot. There's a German expression

eierlegende wollmilchsau

(look it up :)) which perfectly explains this. It's a kind of Jack of All Trades, but worse :) I'm so tired having to learn new commands all the time. I'm about to give up.

Too much syntax, kills the syntax This is just syntactic sugar, probably to make it more accessible to a new generation of programmers. But under the hood it'll still generate the same stuff we grew up with. I really don't like arguments such as: yes, "but this is shorter", or "you shouldn't use loops anymore" If you write out stuff in full, intentions become clearer. But hey, I'm just an *old* programmer...

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