Every serious programmer I know, especially those who are about my age, lives their life in the CLI.
This is not even close to true. Of the developers that I know, many of them quite serious, live in the Windows world, and are very happy with for example VS or eclipse. This is very likely to be the case in most BFEs.
So, you know all the same programmers the parent poster knows? The parent explicitly stated that this was anecdotal, and from (not your) personal experience.
This is not even close to true. Of the developers that I know, many of them quite serious, live in the Windows world, and are very happy with for example VS or eclipse. This is very likely to be the case in most BFEs.