Simplifying Developer Environments With the Right Tools • Christian Heilmann & Julian Wood
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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The Importance of Lightweight Thinking in Developer Tools
Most IDEs allow you to write extensions with an own SDK or something like that rather than just as a manifest and some HTML and CSS. I'm very happy that we're getting better at standardizing extensions for the web on different browsers. My biggest bug bear right now with my job is the developer tools in Chromium have been working, have been growing constantly for 10 years. People use three of the 37 tools because they can't find the other ones and don't know what they're doing. We should be better in UX and UI for developers and not just expect, as we talked about earlier, that everybody just wants a command line and that's all they need.
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