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If I can give one advice to dev tool makers, it'll be this: Do not build an IDE. People are attached to IDEs like no other tool; they won't leave their customi
by jeswin 7y ago
If I can give one advice to dev tool makers, it'll be this: Do not build an IDE.
People are attached to IDEs like no other tool; they won't leave their customizations, key bindings, themes and switch to an unproven alternative. This isn't true all the time, but holds 99.9% of the time.
Also, despite being fairly familiar with the JS ecosystem I am unable to make out what Pika does from the landing page. You probably need to do a better job of explaining the product.
- pgl 7y ago> I am unable to make out what Pika does from the landing page This seemed fairly succinct: > Pika is a new kind of package registry for the modern web Not sure what "Universal JavaScript" means though, and I don't understand why a registry would need an IDE.
- pjmlp 7y agoIf the programming language of the day doesn't come with IDE support, even if a clunky one, I won't bother much with it beyond a couple of weekends to try out what it brings new to world of programming.
- _pmf_ 7y agoSame. I'd love, for example, to try out Raku/Perl 6, but I'm no longer interested in fiddling with VSCode or Vim configurations for hours just to get a mediocre debugger running. (This is not a complaint, I definitely do not feel I deserve anything for free.)