>I don't understand why people need a GUI to edit text
Because I rarely want to just "edit text" - >50% of the time I want to have a visual representation of the file tree with colored/graphical icons, drag & drop, etc.
A significant part of programming is organizing and exploring trough things, especially in huge code bases - GUI hands down beats any text based solution I've seen. This is also why I still won't use VS code as my go-to editor - no file icons - when I have a file tree with hundreds of nodes icons are the best way to find the stuff I'm looking for.
Because I rarely want to just "edit text" - >50% of the time I want to have a visual representation of the file tree with colored/graphical icons, drag & drop, etc.
A significant part of programming is organizing and exploring trough things, especially in huge code bases - GUI hands down beats any text based solution I've seen. This is also why I still won't use VS code as my go-to editor - no file icons - when I have a file tree with hundreds of nodes icons are the best way to find the stuff I'm looking for.