Being different does not make it worse. You could argue that emacs ui is bad because vim user would struggle in it, or vice versa, but I think most people would agree that wouldn't make a lot of sense

Yes it does. Being different for no reason, makes it worse as in more work for no reason. Those commercial developers making every software they develop into another copy of office- do that for a reason.

If you do not develop something new, as in never done before, and you are innovative- you basically throw away user-experience, and they will hate you for that- and they got the right too.

If i would make a hidden C-Define into a compiler and forced you too use that, you would demand the compiler dev - of this UserInterface-UndefinedBehaviour to be hanged - but come a different audience, suddenly the standards can shift and dance.

If we are making programming analogues then I'd say this is more akin to hating LISP because it doesn't look like C.

If there are standard UI interactions that are used by all programs but yours, then yes, being different is worse.

For all the bad things you can say about it, IIRC the windows in Emacs (when running on X) behave like normal windows.

> If there are standard UI interactions that are used by all programs but yours, then yes, being different is worse.

I disagree. You're basically saying the current UIs are the pinnacle of UI design, just because they're popular.

Especially for software that will be used in anger day-in and day-out, it's much more important to have an efficient UI than one with discoverability or a shallow learning curve.

No, they are not. He is arguing that you throw away years of user-experience for no apparent reason. Those people don't have the luxury to retrain for a same-function-framework just because some dev can dance. They are part of a pipeline, they have work to do, and insulting them as unwilling-to-learn, is simply missing the point.

There are plenty of people who are productive using Blender, and prefer its UI. Suggesting that it should be the same as all of the other packages seems pointless. If you want software that works like all of the other packages, just use one of those.

I do. Unfortunately some tools i use, only exist in blender. So every once in a while, i have to do the dantes journey thing and venture into the ux-underworld.

I wouldnt waste so much time on this, if it werent for this wasting so much of my time.