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I've looking at https://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/ https://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/, and I can't see one thing that looks interesting to m

I've looking at https://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/ https://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/, and I can't see one thing that looks interesting to me. Is there anything exciting, for a developer type, that they are excluding?

mathnode 11y ago
Public transit info, for the dev on the go! And I guess the extra language support is always good for our South East brethren. Split view support sounds good. Let's see how it measures up against things like Spectacle and Amethyst.
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- unicornporn 11y ago
  To be honest I've almost never used the Maps app. Google Maps does public transportation very well.
pchm 11y ago
Most important change for me: speed. The performance improvements in El Capitan are absolutely amazing compared to the disaster Yosemite is.
- klum 11y ago
  This sounds absolutely great, hope it's the same for me (haven't tried El Capitan yet)! On a rMBP with integrated graphics, moving from Mavericks to Yosemite made everything noticeably more sluggish, and everytime I happened to use Mavericks after that, I was struck by how responsive it was.
  - JustSomeNobody 11y ago
    I have stayed on Mavericks for this reason. I likely will move to El Capitan, but I'll wait until the release and see what people say.
- unicornporn 11y ago
  That would is of course always welcome. Can't say my early 2011 MBP with an SSD has ever felt underpowered on Yosemite though.
jakobegger 11y ago
They fixed many issues with default user interface elements. For example, it's almost impossible to see if a control is disabled or not in Yosemite. Or the default, white, borderless buttons on don't work very well on a bright background. In El Capitan they fixed a lot of these problems. All buttons now have a border, and their state is clearly visible.
- untog 11y ago
  So essentially they fixed a regression bug.
jeffbax 11y ago
Nostalgic memories of the few things that ran good on your S3 cards back in 1998? More seriously, from that list at least for me: - Speed and battery life from Metal, to start - Better window management - Bug fixes - Spotlight improvements (if you don't use Alfred already) - Audio indicator in Safari Tabs Although I will likely wait and see whether all of my dev tools are going to shatter by letting someone else at work do it first :)

mathnode 11y ago

Public transit info, for the dev on the go! And I guess the extra language support is always good for our South East brethren. Split view support sounds good. Let's see how it measures up against things like Spectacle and Amethyst.

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unicornporn 11y ago
To be honest I've almost never used the Maps app. Google Maps does public transportation very well.

pchm 11y ago

Most important change for me: speed. The performance improvements in El Capitan are absolutely amazing compared to the disaster Yosemite is.

klum 11y ago
This sounds absolutely great, hope it's the same for me (haven't tried El Capitan yet)! On a rMBP with integrated graphics, moving from Mavericks to Yosemite made everything noticeably more sluggish, and everytime I happened to use Mavericks after that, I was struck by how responsive it was.
- JustSomeNobody 11y ago
  I have stayed on Mavericks for this reason. I likely will move to El Capitan, but I'll wait until the release and see what people say.
unicornporn 11y ago
That would is of course always welcome. Can't say my early 2011 MBP with an SSD has ever felt underpowered on Yosemite though.

jakobegger 11y ago

They fixed many issues with default user interface elements. For example, it's almost impossible to see if a control is disabled or not in Yosemite. Or the default, white, borderless buttons on don't work very well on a bright background. In El Capitan they fixed a lot of these problems. All buttons now have a border, and their state is clearly visible.

untog 11y ago
So essentially they fixed a regression bug.

jeffbax 11y ago

Nostalgic memories of the few things that ran good on your S3 cards back in 1998? More seriously, from that list at least for me: - Speed and battery life from Metal, to start - Better window management - Bug fixes - Spotlight improvements (if you don't use Alfred already) - Audio indicator in Safari Tabs Although I will likely wait and see whether all of my dev tools are going to shatter by letting someone else at work do it first :)