Why is it that programmer editors (Sublime, VSCode, BBEdit) don't have tool bars? Any time I ask on an official channel I'm (rudely) told that programmers should be using the keyboard. I do mostly, but not always. I like the visual nature of having the option for toolbars. Sometimes speed isn't the only concern for programmers.

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It's 2022. Rudeness when someone ask for help or makes a suggestion on a channel intended precisely for that is unjustifiable. It's better to let it unanswered or give a link to the response. Shame on them.
About keyboard: what a nonsense. Keyboard shortcuts are really useful for frequent tasks, but I really hate when they force me to use a command palette; I find them wildly unpractical. And barely use toolbars. I see it as a matter of taste; nothing to do with real productivity. We are programmers, not typists. If using the mouse for saving a file is such a drag in your productivity, then there is something fundamentally wrong in your workflow. Your main concern should be thinking, not typing. That kind of optimization only makes sense if you use most of your time writing boilerplate or very trivial code. Which is a really big red flag for me, unless you are a student.

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