alt Hacker NewsThis is borderline silly, though. It is clumsy to start. But so is walking. As is running. Have you seen people start out on bicycles? What about writing? Talking?
That is to say, all things start out clumsy. And people that are good at it, no longer feel that it is clumsy. Which is why a lot of people that have been working with this for any time just don't think of this much.
Such a strange attitude.
If a tool is clumsy, we try to improve it, that has been the case since the first stone artifacts created a million years ago.
Do you think that the (sort of) tree-based affordances that most modern code editors do support, like autoindentation and brace pairing/enclosing, are silly too? What about some slightly more advanced features, like the AST-based "extend selection" and "move statement up/down" features in JetBrains IDEs?
Or do you think that the status quo just somehow happens to be exactly right and going any further would be silly?