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  “What is the terminal?” In his keynote talk at the first Perl conference, Larry Wall couldn’t get the Windows computer on the podium to behave. So he SSH’d into his own machine and said, with relief and joy: “Home sweet home”. Three decades on, software developers still live in the terminal, now more than ever as coding agents dethrone the integrated environments that held sway for so long. IDEs recede as we do less writing and editing, more reading and reviewing. If you watch developers at w...