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If a majority of programming nerds weren't so averse to building UI to facilitate more complex actions with better guardrails, we'd probably be better off in ma
by raydev 3y ago
If a majority of programming nerds weren't so averse to building UI to facilitate more complex actions with better guardrails, we'd probably be better off in many ways. Our desire to not standardize anything beyond "human readable ASCII-like" has held us back, imo.
Xcode's plist editing ability is a mild improvement over manipulating XML text directly, but could use more obvious shortcuts/hotkeys. Even writing XML in an IDE like IntelliJ isn't great, autocomplete should do a lot more.
- eviks 3y agoWhy would you need text-like XML if you get a good tool that converts to a more useful data entry format? Wouldn't you just use more efficient binary encoding for storage/interchange, while converting to something user-UI-friendly?
- raydev 3y agoYeah, I agree, doesn't necessarily have to be XML. But adding a highly productive UI layer on top of existing standards would be a great start.