&gt;I don&#x27;t understand why people need a GUI to edit text<p>Because I rarely want to just &quot;edit text&quot; - &gt;50% of the time I want to have a visual representation of the file tree with colored&#x2F;graphical icons, drag &amp; drop, etc.<p>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&#x27;ve seen. This is also why I still won&#x27;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&#x27;m looking for.