> Developers (OSS developers included) don't respect them and assume they're too stupid to be permitted to use anything but the safety scissors. After all, if they were worthy of creating things they'd be C greybeards.
Thanks for mentioning that too. I loathe that mentality.
What people don't understand is that it hobbles the developers/geeks too. It causes us to build systems that waste our time futzing around with minutia. Bad UX and bad tooling is objectively bad in that it imposes needless cognitive load.
I learned this when I (almost cliche) switched from Linux desktop to Mac. I was amazed at how much more I got done when I didn't have to futz with drivers, config options, broken packages, etc. I now probably spend an hour a month messing with my computer compared to an hour a day.
Re:Electron 3.0.0
by scarface74 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:38PM
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I haven’t done any desktop GUI development since VB6 and I only used .Net Windows Forms for Windows Mobile up until 2011. What is the modern drag and drop method to build GUIs on Windows?
That almost nothing like this exists today is evidence that personal computing is dying, IMO. Companies don't want to empower users, they want them to be good little content consumers who do what the ads tell them. Developers (OSS developers included) don't respect them and assume they're too stupid to be permitted to use anything but the safety scissors. After all, if they were worthy of creating things they'd be C greybeards.