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From the very start, I've called Asana the Lisp of task management tools. The problem is all of the founders and early employees of Asana are insanely smart so
by shalmanese 11y ago
From the very start, I've called Asana the Lisp of task management tools. The problem is all of the founders and early employees of Asana are insanely smart so they prioritized power over learnability at every design step. There's a huge amount of conceptual complexity to absorb and very little support in the way to help you do so.
Like Lisp, once you're over the hump, you become a rabid devotee but it's culturally not friendly to newbies and probably never will be.
My conversations with current and ex Asana employees have all reported essentially that my take is accurate.
- maw 11y agoIs there a lisp variant that switches from prefix notation to infix when you indent blocks by multiples of 4 instead of 2? Did its maintainers not see fit to document it? Do they pooh-pooh you when you report the issue? If so, I'm sure I'm not alone in never wanting anything to do with it.
- shalmanese 11y agoNot that exact example but there's plenty of things spiritually similar in Lisp, starting from naming them car and cdr and going all the way down.