The Nineteenth Byte

Ginger

01:28

@RadvylfPrograms does this look better?

Sʨɠɠan

ooh

Radvylf Programs

02:53

Looks basically identical, asidde from being a tad bigger

It still looks very Ubuntu-esque unattractive to me, but you're designing it not me :p

I do think that the language logo thing is a bad choice

It's bad from a UI/accessibility perspective, firstly

It requires you to be able to recognize the logo of any language you might make or import a project using, and making that accessible to screenreaders is easily forgettable

Secondly, it restricts you in the future, since every project must now have a single assigned language, which is a very visible and central part of that project's "identity" in Klein's UI

And most importantly, it leaves you with few elegant options for languages without icons, or projects which use either a mix of languages, a brand new language, or no language at all (e.g., text files, or configuration files)

I also don't really like the projects being mixed in with "meta" stuff like the new project and import project buttons

There should at least be a separator of some sort, but for maximum clarity I'd personally go with a second column, and that also helps to fix the "too much space on either side of the actual content" issue you already have, which will be much worse on 16:9 or even 3:2

I'd really urge you to reconsider the gray theme though, those feel very outdated to me

EIther a white-background light theme or a dark-gray/black-background dark theme would look much more sleek and professional

Unrelated String

^

all of that

i feel like incorporating language icons only makes sense to the extent that there's some special project structure that the ide offers for that language, so if you don't plan to specialize like that it's just meaningless

absolutely make two separate columns for actions and projects

i don't hate the color scheme but the top bar feels weirdly flat

and it really does scream mid-2000s java

Unrelated String

06:47

this reminds me, am i the only one who doesn't like using pipes for closures/lambdas
like they're not awful but they just feel kinda weird

in a lot of the toy problems i've been doing in rust there's been a lot of cause to map something over pairs and seeing the pipes around the parentheses of the tuple pattern match takes a while to get used to

and the more generally off thing is you neither get a strong sense of the arguments being visually enclosed or of them introducing a body

also nullary closures starting with just ||, which looks identical to logical or

Unrelated String

07:18

@UnrelatedString ...come to think of it with those i should probably have just used zipWith but the point remains

or zip_with

whatever it is

i'm too haskell brained at the moment :P

DialFrost

08:10

@Sʨɠɠan lmao

emanresu A

Who wants some JS?

Unrelated String

i was on board until the last one

what the fuck

i guess it's underlyingly !(null < 0) or something

but then that just makes the others more confusing because it seems like it's supposed to act like NaN or something like that

emanresu A

Welcome to JS. Please mind the gap between your brain and the platform.

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Neil