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Homebrew [1] suffers from the same issue and it's horrible. What the hell is a keg, a cask? what is pouring? a cellar? what? I've been using it for years and I
by juancampa 6y ago
Homebrew [1] suffers from the same issue and it's horrible. What the hell is a keg, a cask? what is pouring? a cellar? what? I've been using it for years and I haven't bother to find out, but the fact that it's not immediately obvious is a sign of bad UX IMO.
1: https://brew.sh https://brew.sh
- foobiekr 6y agoIt’s worse because once you look it up, it’s a bunch of forced metaphors where the priority was being cute rather than being useful.
- viraptor 6y agoThat one and Chef (https://docs.chef.io/cookbooks/ https://docs.chef.io/cookbooks/ - cookbooks, recipes). It's a bad idea to abuse naming like that.
- rvnx 6y agoLet's talk about the elephant in the room: Ruby with its gems and poetry. How are you even supposed to know what Nokogiri is about ?
- viraptor 6y agoI haven't even thought of rubygems and I deal with them every day. I'm curious now - they don't seem like a comparable issue for some reasons. Maybe because it's just one level? The language is Ruby which is arbitrary and the packages are gems which is connected in naming, but there's nothing more in language itself, right?
- ricc 6y agoTheir usage of cookbooks and recipes is actually fine. Kitchen can be confusing sometimes but generally still fine... Knife is the most confusing of all. But what I really hate about Chef terms is they make searching with DDG really difficult.
- m463 6y agoWhat the heck is a gnu? or a grep or a yacc / bison? :)