Thread by @championswimmer

Gatekeeping happens in weird ways, and most of us just fall for it.

For example - lot of people have forced themselves to "like" alcohol, when initially they didn't like the taste, just to as to "blend in" with the cool crowd.

The "acquired taste" thing is scam.

And especially in the tech community and developers/programmers there are a bunch of similar fads.

- real devs use dark mode IDE
- real devs use vim to edit
- real devs use mechanical keyboards
- real devs do not use mouse.

All that is crap ok

I do not know if the following are enough to make me a real dev

- worked on custom kernels back in 10th grade
- made libraries downloaded > 50k/day
- mentored 5k+ android and nodejs devs personally

All of this using GUI editors, light themed IDEs, chiclet keyboards and mouse.

I have seen people "acquire" and "develop" tastes for dark themes or mechanical keyboards. Or struggled through learning Vim.

See, seriously - while I use graphical text editors, I do my Android compile/run workflow from CLI not Android Studio. Whatever is efficient for you.

There might be things where you prefer the CLI while the majority uses a GUI. There might, also in the same universe, be simultaneously other things where you prefer GUI tools while the world uses CLI.

None of that matters. Do not fight the instincts of your body.