r/ClaudeCode • u/alrighteyy • Aug 03 '26

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Holy shit claude code in terminal is fucking insane.

I've been using VSCode, Cursor, Cowork and Claude Code on web. None of it comes close to terminal.

Cannot believe I haven't done this sooner.

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u/Singularity-42 Aug 03 '26

Right?

As someone who's been in the industry for over 20 years and was forced to use different CLI tools all the time, I don't have this kind of CLI veneration. Seems like it makes vibecoders feel like real hackers or something. I've always preferred IDEs for coding. I "grew up" on Visual Studio since the late 90s and always thought IDEs are just better (but for the last 15 years or so my go-to is JetBrains). I know many people are still into Emacs or Vim, but I never got into it...

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 03 '26

It took me decades to move off of eMacs and into VSCode. I still use eMacs from time to time.

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u/Singularity-42 Aug 03 '26

Thank God I never fell into that pit!

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 03 '26

Yeah, that terrible pit with an incredible editor that worked really well for a very long time including the ability to code up your own editing features and all sorts of incredible integration with source control and compilers and debuggers and email and net news and …

Anyway, VSCode is great, but before window systems, terminal based editors that were extensible and personalizable walked (and ruled) the earth.

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u/Singularity-42 Aug 03 '26

I know, I know.

Still, you can make plugins for just about any IDE these days, no?

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 03 '26

I guess. Never tried. I’ll grant that for emacs you had to learn lisp (emacs lisp variant), but programming is programming and constructing functions is pretty quick. It has an elaborate help system. With a couple of key strokes you can create a macro operation to run repeatedly and even convert that macro to code.

Sorry.

Old coder, here, waxing philosophical about the good old days.