I agree. I occasionally turn to them to see if they work in a new setting, but find they never expose the features of a grid I would find useful. Everything must be manually placed, rather than allowing content to intelligently snap to multiple axes. Possibly I never have grasped some fundamental concept, possibly they are not suited to the sorts of layouts I usually work on. But more and more I feel they are designed to fulfil some purpose orthogonal to what I would need them to do.
I was looking at Marko a few years ago because of the concise syntax. I have always thought highly of Pug and would have loved a framework that integrated that sort of elegant, minimal syntax. Unfortunately, Marko doesn’t even get the syntax highlighting right in its own docs for this style.
The example on that page with leading commas to separate tag attributes, and a number of other choices across the framework are also a turn off for me personally.
I’ve mostly been using Svelte for the past half-decade instead but still hope for something more elegant to come along.
What is remarkable is the frequency with which I’ve heard so-called subject matter experts do this on podcasts. It seems to me a very effective way to communicate your lack of any such expertise.
Preview is genuinely very good, but it doesn’t handle annotations made in Acrobat very well. When navigating between annotations, they can become stuck open in Preview, and it is not possible to view insertions.
Whether that is the fault of Acrobat or Preview, I’m not sure. Unfortunately, though, it means I frequently need to move across to Acrobat when addressing edits that someone has marked up in that software. And that acts as a constant reminder of how sluggish, awkward and nagging Acrobat can be. Even quitting the app is slow!
Agree that it seems like a pretty steep jump for my use cases too.
Makes it clear how generous their free tier has been. Comparing the current free plan to the incoming one, as an example:
- Unlimited deploys vs 10-15?
- 100GB bandwidth vs 1?
- Unlimited requests vs 100K?
I have a mixture of paid and personal use, but will be looking around for something with fewer features and a simpler cost structure. Static hosting is the only real feature that's required for a lot of my projects, and the other niceties are completely non-essential.
I have found Netlify to be a great product so far, though.
Another category, searchable interfaces, may fit into one of these or may be it’s own separate category. But tools like MacOS Spotlight or the command palette in some editors are very useful for power users. Having every command available through a minimal set of fuzzy keyboard strokes is a significant productivity boost, while also allowing some degree of discoverability.
As an aside, if anyone at Adobe is reading this, this sort of tool would be an excellent addition to Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. InDesign already has something like it, although that implementation leaves a little to be desired.
