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> WYSIWYG is awful to work with. Nearly the entire planet uses WYSIWYG and prefers it
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
> WYSIWYG is awful to work with.
Nearly the entire planet uses WYSIWYG and prefers it
- lpcvoid 3y agoI think people wouldn't prefer it if they actually knew something different. Non-tech people don't even know there's a world outside MS Office suite of tools, which shove you to WYSIWYG by design. From experience when showing somebody LaTeX, it's an eye opener people didn't know existed.
- Brendinooo 3y agoIt's a "the worst choice, except for every other choice" sort of thing. WYSIWYG almost always generates nonsense in the underlying code, which can be very difficult to work with when it comes time to style that code. And since I'm a frontend guy, this is something I'm always having to debug.
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoThe problem there is having to manually maintain code. Once we start abandoning useful technology to maintain the status quo, we don't get progress