Comment by waldrews
17 hours ago
The property grid control is still the greatest general purpose UI of all time. Define your classes with some attributes and it just works. It was all downhill from there with web and mobile.
17 hours ago
The property grid control is still the greatest general purpose UI of all time. Define your classes with some attributes and it just works. It was all downhill from there with web and mobile.
I always wonder how we have lost so many useful concepts in our tooling and IDEs.
The reason was the coders' mindset who entered the job market after 2000, maybe up to 2010, that the ability to code (to use a programming language) is the ultimate development of homo sapiens. With that solved by AI, we can safely start going back to simple, sane concepts like low-code and no-code, property sheets and drag & drop user interfaces.
Because script kiddies in the early 2000's, only know vi and emacs, and have nostalgia for using computers as many of us did up to the early 1990's.
Because I learned on this, it made learning everything else that much harder. Even today I wish there was something as functional, basic, and intuitive, even though I well.understand the reasons for doing things different ways.