• @bloup
    25•8 days ago

    Granted, I am not a software engineer, but in my personal experience I find simply using my smart phone to be convenient enough these days that transitioning into a different paradigm to accomplish a task almost always feels more inconvenient. Even when I want to or need to do a little bit of programming.

    I guess I’m kind of wondering if anybody actually asked him why he doesn’t use a laptop, because it sort of seems like people are assuming that because he’s from Bangladesh, it must be because he can’t afford one and I think that’s extremely presumptuous and potentially hurtful.

    • @Muehe@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      35•8 days ago

      Nah, all good. The question was asked and answered on Github. They also mentioned on Reddit that hardware is very overpriced in Bangladesh and they are too young to have an ID and thus bank account.

    • @Benjaben@lemmy.world
      14•8 days ago

      Interesting! I wonder if it’s an age thing or just personality or what. I feel the exact opposite, having to do anything outside the few routine things for which I use my phone feels horrible. Like there’s this noticeable “blocked” or “constrained” feeling in my head, often before I even start, like I’m pre-annoyed.

      Then again I feel limited even by a laptop when really working on a project, so maybe I just have some baked-in preference for “interface sprawl”, maybe you’d call it.

      • folkrav
        15•8 days ago

        It’s the keyboard that gets me. Symbols are in weird places on most software keyboards, and the lack of physical feedback really destroys my typing accuracy. My fat fingers can’t type the correct keys it seems, so I rely heavily on autocorrect, which doesn’t translate well to code. It’s simply tedious to write more than a couple of sentences.

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          2•7 days ago

          it baffles me that no one has come up with a better way of inputting text on phones yet, you can literally just write new code to do it!!! but no everyone’s just making yet another basically identical keyboard or they make neat concepts like thumbkey that don’t actually make any ergonomical sense at all…

          hell i feel like you could get pretty close to ideal with just a custom keyboard layout that applies the concept of colemak to two thumbs rather than 10 fingers: put the commonly used letters where the thumbs naturally rest and put least used characters where it’s awkward to reach, and secondarily place letters such that you’re alternating as much as possible.