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Glad to know it isn't just me. Same general developer history, same experience. Windows has its quirks and bad decisions they made over the years but the devel
by xrd 5y ago
Glad to know it isn't just me. Same general developer history, same experience.
Windows has its quirks and bad decisions they made over the years but the developer experience is consistent, even when bad.
Apple's experience is like being in an Arabian desert: sometimes you see a mysterious oasis that wasn't there before, but mostly it is shifting dunes that cost days or months.
- mst 5y agoThere was an article talking about how we train ourselves to our tools to not do the things that cause problems. This works a lot better when the set of "things that cause problems" stays relatively constant.
- ethbr0 5y agoI think this is one of the reason Microsoft leadership was historically so rabid about reminding their employees that developer experience was core (because it's the indirect upstream of user experience). Third party developers are an example of "out of sight, out of mind." It's easy to forget how a feature impacts them. And it's easy to say "We still have apps coming into the platform." But what you don't see is the frustration, resentment, or apps that were never written because developers found something better to do with their time. Mac and iOS development isn't there yet, but it sure feels like they aren't trying very hard to steer the ship in any other direction.