Re:Show HN: A new spline
by jacobolus on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:28AM
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> This is the typical engineer mindset, after having spent years doing something they consider obvious what it is not.
More charitably, this is the way all research prototypes work in any field.
Production vector illustration packages hire a team of people who spend man-years of effort canvassing customers, collecting bug reports, adding features and affordances and refining the user interface, writing documentation, and so on. Someone making a research prototype where the UI per se was built in a few weeks is not going to have the same feature richness, level of polish, or clarity of outward-facing documentation.
More charitably, this is the way all research prototypes work in any field.
Production vector illustration packages hire a team of people who spend man-years of effort canvassing customers, collecting bug reports, adding features and affordances and refining the user interface, writing documentation, and so on. Someone making a research prototype where the UI per se was built in a few weeks is not going to have the same feature richness, level of polish, or clarity of outward-facing documentation.
Give it some time.