Comment by mvieira38
3 days ago
Only in the small subset of programmers that post on HN is that the case. Most users or even most developers don't mind slow stuff or "getting into flow state" or anything like that, they just want a nice UI. I've seen professional data scientists using Github Desktop on Windows instead of just learning to type git commands for an easy 10x time save
GitHub Desktop is way better for reviewing diffs than the git cli. Everyone I’ve ever worked with who preferred cli tools also did an add and commit everything, and their PRs always have more errors overall that would be caught before even being committed if they reviewed visual diffs while committing.
Sublime Merge gets you all those benefits, PLUS it’s really fast!
The best interface is magit, IMO. I use a clone of it in VS Code that is nearly as good. But you get the speed of CLI while still being very easy to stage/unstage individual chunks, which is probably the piece that does not get done enough by CLI users.
They do mind, which is why we see such a huge drop off in retention if pages load even seconds too low. They just don't describe it in the same way.
They don't say they buy the iPhone because it has the fastest CPU and most responsive OS, they just say it "just works".
Not everyone is conscious about it but I feel like it’s something that people will always want.
Like the « evergreen » things Amazon decided to focus on : faster delivery, greater selection, lower cost.