It's not about the workflow - it's about the fact that things like compiling files, linking libraries, are kind of basic concepts.

For his prior apps (flash) he created objects using only a graphical interface (never wrote a single class), and the 'program' was a single 9000 line file where everything (all vars, functions, etc...) was in the global namespace with absolutely no organization, encapsulation, etc...

Anyhow, for someone who claims to have been programming for 10+ years, I'd expect some understanding of how the underlying technology works, how languages and compilers work, etc...

I mean, I like convenience as much as anyone (my Vim setup behaves like an IDE with code completion, automatic compiling, etc...), but knowing the command line is a good thing when the app you want to build involves a Unix-y server...