I’m neutral on whether knowing how to compile from terminal is essential or not, but I disagree with this:
> Compiling code and setting up a proper coding environment is a solved problem that isn't worth the headspace of a young and aspiring programmer. In the modern day, you can open up the console on your browser and start writing and running code just like that.
Noone should get into writing more complex programs without understanding the basics of the tooling, and we at most only have a few auto-generators that will create a skeleton that can and will break with ever so slightly a change.
> Compiling code and setting up a proper coding environment is a solved problem that isn't worth the headspace of a young and aspiring programmer. In the modern day, you can open up the console on your browser and start writing and running code just like that.
Noone should get into writing more complex programs without understanding the basics of the tooling, and we at most only have a few auto-generators that will create a skeleton that can and will break with ever so slightly a change.