I have spent a fair amount of time trying to keep the clutter out of the UI --- something that, 5 or so years ago, it seemed like every other IDE worked hard to add (clutter, that is). I found them to be a maze of random buttons that, when I clicked them, gave me messages that made it clear that I was not welcome.
Nowadays, the trend has reversed a little bit and the other IDEs seem less clutterful than a few years ago. But it is a battle that I fight pretty assiduously. Why should there be more buttons than you need to do your job? Why should you have to do 10 steps of setup before you can run a simple program? Robby On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: >> The 15 or so developers that I know personally who tried out DrRacket >> at my recommendation all complained about the UI. "It is a toy." and >> "Does anyone actually use this?" were a running theme. I told them >> that I use it and it is pretty amazing; perhaps I need to work on my >> sales skills. > > there is apparently a wealth of power under the hood. it is just not > exposed in a way that makes sense to folks who have experience with > other more main-stream ides, i think. > > sincerely. > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
