Counterpoint: Blender, once they stopped trying to dismiss critique of its formerly godawful UX as a “skill issue”. I even saw Blender users looking into alternatives the moment Blender wasn’t awful to use, because they no longer could be special little snowflakes for using a piece of software, as “normies” started to “invade” their community.
Man it took me like 3 years to get over myself and just re-learn Blender 2.8 but eventually it clicked and new blender is way better. I still have to go into settings and tick ‘Select All toggles’, set Select to Right mouse button and rebind focus to Q. No amount of brute force is gonna make me enjoy the new behavior for those functions, it only gets in my way.
Well, they could have the resources to do it if they didn’t scare away every new user (and potential contributor) with “Trust me, it gets good once you dedicate your entire life to it”.
"Trust me bro, after you spend 342786 hours learning GDB, you’ll be able to write scripts that will be able to test you programs for regressions and stuff, but only if you write command-line utilities in the first place, and if you needed a GUI for more real time stuff, then you’re a soyboy <insert various slurs here>!
I mean, technically, there are pretty good frontends for gdb, for example in VS Code and CLion but I guess if you use them, you’re a corporate shill or something because they are backed by companies and contain code that isn’t licensed under (A)GPLv3.
Counterpoint: Blender, once they stopped trying to dismiss critique of its formerly godawful UX as a “skill issue”. I even saw Blender users looking into alternatives the moment Blender wasn’t awful to use, because they no longer could be special little snowflakes for using a piece of software, as “normies” started to “invade” their community.
Man it took me like 3 years to get over myself and just re-learn Blender 2.8 but eventually it clicked and new blender is way better. I still have to go into settings and tick ‘Select All toggles’, set Select to Right mouse button and rebind focus to Q. No amount of brute force is gonna make me enjoy the new behavior for those functions, it only gets in my way.
blender is obviously an exception, they have the resources to do it. the vast majority of projects this post is about do not.
if people want to feel special for using difficult software, that’s dumb, but that’s not why the software is difficult.
“the exception proves the rule” and so on
Well, they could have the resources to do it if they didn’t scare away every new user (and potential contributor) with “Trust me, it gets good once you dedicate your entire life to it”.
"Trust me bro, after you spend 342786 hours learning GDB, you’ll be able to write scripts that will be able to test you programs for regressions and stuff, but only if you write command-line utilities in the first place, and if you needed a GUI for more real time stuff, then you’re a soyboy <insert various slurs here>!
I mean, technically, there are pretty good frontends for gdb, for example in VS Code and CLion but I guess if you use them, you’re a corporate shill or something because they are backed by companies and contain code that isn’t licensed under (A)GPLv3.
not everyone wants to give up control of their life’s work in exchange for funding. funding comes with stipulations.