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Why the focus on vertical screen space? I find I am rarely looking at the top and bottom of my viewport at the same time. The only advantage I see is being able
by rocqua 3y ago
Why the focus on vertical screen space? I find I am rarely looking at the top and bottom of my viewport at the same time.
The only advantage I see is being able to tile more files onto my screen.
Perhaps I am too used to having to scroll, and never had the joy of not needing to at all, but this is the weirdest part of the article to me.
- tlarkworthy 3y agoI agree with the author. It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain. Unfortunately auto-formatting is a better for other reasons so we don't have much wiggle room here but left alone I adopt the authors style
- gavinhoward 3y ago> It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain. Not always. I'm a developer that likes a lot of whitespace. My style is exactly the one the author hates. I struggle with full walls of text. As in, my brain just simply cannot handle whitespace-free, or nearly whitespace-free, code. Whitespace makes it easier for me to read, exactly the opposite of the author. And that's okay. But it's certainly not an impediment of knowledge transfer to my brain.