Visual Studio has task runner explorer now as well, it's easy to setup command line tools to run automatically, either on project open or on build.
I despair these days at the ridiculous number of command line tools you need to run, but once you've completely wasted 2 or 3 days of your life on these pointless things, cut and pasting command lines from setup instructions that give no indication what any of the flags actually mean, you can forget about them.
There were days when you just had to run an installer and then you were good to go. Or just get the latest version of the tools (and by tools I mean actual tools with a GUI and everything, gasp!) That's obviously really untrendy now.
But yeah, you can set it all up in VS to deal with the insanity for you. Good thing too, as the ASP.Net team have been drinking heavily from the command line insanity kool-aid.
Do you really want to point and click around on everything all the time? Maybe read the documentation on what various flags mean when you decide to use something.
Yes, the mouse + GUI is a lot more usable to me than typing in a CLI. The command line is from when we had terminals.
And worse still, yes, that's the case for most people. Most people prefer using mice + GUIs. Why are we going back in time? Why can't we have tools that work as both GUIs and CLIs?
CLIs are great for automation (and keyboard obsessed users).
GUIs are great for discoverability and making it obvious to users what the 'normal' usage is.
It's absolute madness to go back to the days of CLIs.
I'd disagree here. All the most productive developers I know make heavy usage of the CLI, and some of them, including me, are even developing in it with tools like vim or Emacs.
Self-selecting a bit there... Productive developer!
Have you considered that part of the problem is the stack you use causes other people to be unproductive because it's not clear what all the tools you're using are doing?
I despair these days at the ridiculous number of command line tools you need to run, but once you've completely wasted 2 or 3 days of your life on these pointless things, cut and pasting command lines from setup instructions that give no indication what any of the flags actually mean, you can forget about them.
There were days when you just had to run an installer and then you were good to go. Or just get the latest version of the tools (and by tools I mean actual tools with a GUI and everything, gasp!) That's obviously really untrendy now.
But yeah, you can set it all up in VS to deal with the insanity for you. Good thing too, as the ASP.Net team have been drinking heavily from the command line insanity kool-aid.