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This is a perfectly fine take, but it seems to me there is something wrong when our everyday workhorse tools are painful to interact with despite providing the
by topaz0 3y ago
This is a perfectly fine take, but it seems to me there is something wrong when our everyday workhorse tools are painful to interact with despite providing the same basic functionality as they did 20 years ago, adequately, on much slower hardware. It doesn't necessarily mean that the tooling improvements you're praising should be abandoned, and it doesn't mean that none of the new features are worthwhile. But it does in my view mean that the priorities are hostile to me as a user, and I feel justified in being disenchanted by that fact.
- btown 3y agoA perfectly valid opinion! As a user, I like that my apps keep getting feature improvements without needing to pay $100/user/mo for them. I like that they can support all different kinds of text rendering without relying on shared system libraries that might be clobbered when I upgrade my operating system or install Qt for a side project. I like that they have multiple levels of sandboxing, and that someone sending me a message isn't likely to cause RCE at a level that can wipe my drives. I don't like that there's a few milliseconds of delay as I type this in Google Chrome, but I like the other stuff even more.