alt Hacker NewsThat would explain a lot of the design in VS code, which seems to take all those suggestions by heart.
It's of course horrible.
That would explain a lot of the design in VS code, which seems to take all those suggestions by heart.
It's of course horrible.
Indeed. “No modals” has been a rallying cry since Larry Tesler and the Macintosh, but I haven’t seen a useful dissection of the problems with the other extreme.
As you point out, VSCode in particular is loaded with ever-changing user feedback and prompting, spread throughout the interface with no rhyme or reason as to how attention should be distributed.