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Why not?
by ykonstant 2y ago
Why not?
- throwanem 2y agoImagine that the CLI tool you use most often every day - a compiler, a package manager, like that - adds animations like these in common operations. Now you have to wait for the animation to finish before you can continue your work. How do you feel about that?
- makapuf 2y agoOf course it would be obnoxious. As an "about" screen, or in a opt-in funny theme why not !
- chambored 2y agoThe idea that anyone would use this during "common operations" is laughable, but as one offs during specific operations, maybe.
- throwanem 2y ago> The idea that anyone would use this during "common operations" is laughable It's been a while since I dared assume anything at all was so obviously absurd that no one could ever think to do it - not least since significant portions of my career to date have consisted of cleaning up after people who had.
- ykonstant 2y ago?? Why would I imagine that? What does this have to do with using animations in production? What you are saying is "how would you feel about using animations in inappropriate places?"
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> What does this have to do with using animations in production? What you are saying is "how would you feel about using animations in inappropriate places?" Production will always be an inappropriate place. QED.
- Szpadel 2y agoI actually did some color animations to status bar of build tool I created while ago. In my opinion this distracted enough to make build feel faster Edit: popular example of less invasive animations would be new docker cli, (pulling, buildx build)
- throwanem 2y agoYeah. Animations covering time that'd be spent either way I see no problem with, so long as it's obvious the time would be spent either way. Animations that waste my time, not so much. Better than either, of course, would be effort spent on speeding up the build in the first place. I realize that's less fun, though. In general, the critical development path is not a place to thoughtlessly add friction.
- reddalo 2y agoAlso, I don't want to even imagine how it would look on a SSH connection.
- distortionfield 2y agoIt’s trivial to add in a keypress that short circuits the animation. God, this website is full of the grumpiest people on the planet.
- dialup_sounds 2y ago[flagged]
- cornstalks 2y agoIt's not grumpy to prefer function over form in a tool. People optimize for different things. GP's comment is reasonable; they're optimizing for something different than you.
- worksonmine 2y agoThose of us who live in the terminal do it because it's the fastest, most convenient option, not because it's pretty or to appear 1337. Animations like these get in the way. Cool project, but I would never use it.
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- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoProd should be as robust and straightforward as possible; no distractions, no noise, no extra overhead. This is neat, but not useful, and it adds distractions and delays.