alt Hacker NewsThat was the point of the article. Users with knowledge of how it works can do it fine, but new users can't.
Your average dev who's never used vim or vi will start frustrated by default.
That was the point of the article. Users with knowledge of how it works can do it fine, but new users can't.
Your average dev who's never used vim or vi will start frustrated by default.
My point is that no one is a new user forever and so I think we need to come up with a better solution than UI taking up screen space for things people end up doing via shortcuts. Menus and command palettes are great for this because they are mostly invisible.
The other important thing is learning to fit into the conventions of the platform: for example, Cocoa apps on Mac all inherit a bunch of consistent behaviors.