arstechnica.com— ActiveState has released a new version of the Komodo integrated development environment. We tested its newly added support for Node.js debugging and code completion.
Feb 3, 2012View in Crawl 4
It may be fine under the hood, but that interface is a complete mess. Copy and paste buttons? Really? How many developers do they imagine are pressing buttons to copy and paste? Sideways tabs in sidebars, who's background changes to white one level in, tabs which duplicate information in the sidebars... yuck. I know IDEs are complex things, but honestly, this looks like a nightmare. This might be excusable in a free editor, but it costs $332, you'd think they could pay a decent designer to fix that interface.
termousadkaFeb 4, 2012
It may be fine under the hood, but that interface is a complete mess. Copy and paste buttons? Really? How many developers do they imagine are pressing buttons to copy and paste? Sideways tabs in sidebars, who's background changes to white one level in, tabs which duplicate information in the sidebars... yuck. I know IDEs are complex things, but honestly, this looks like a nightmare. This might be excusable in a free editor, but it costs $332, you'd think they could pay a decent designer to fix that interface.
jaketyson85Feb 4, 2012
hey great article, thx for sharing really! next time maybe post it on slashdot instead tho!