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I use ddd, but I don't particularly like it. It's telling that after all those years we still don't have anything better, it seems like ddd today is still the s
by w0utert 10y ago
I use ddd, but I don't particularly like it. It's telling that after all those years we still don't have anything better, it seems like ddd today is still the same crutch as when I first used it, over 10 years ago.
- dman 10y agoThe market has spoken in terms of preferring free tools. I personally think that is one big reason why the quality of developer tools is as low as it is.
- bronson 10y agobecause free == low quality ??
- smallnamespace 10y agoNo, but there's certainly a positive correlation
- dman 10y agoA market with only free offerings will cause a certain category of actors to be absent. I would think that a market with fewer categories of actors would correspond into a drop in quality among some dimensions.
- alkonaut 10y agoFor some reason the equality seems to hold for most applications with a complex user interface. Reasons may include that it is a cross discipline thing that requires skills/people such as interaction designers, artists, technical writers, linguists etc that are less common than developers in the OSS community. It could also be that good interface design benefits from a centralized decision process which can be a bad fit for OSS that is usually too incremental and democratic for radical design changes. Normally there is no money for things like paid UI testing/focus groups. That said, there is great free software with good UI/UX too - only they are more or less always backed by a large corporation.