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Good Tools Are Invisible - gingerBill

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TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want my tools to be "fun". I want my tools to be invisible.Text Editor WarsLet's take vim as an example This is just an example, and applies to other editors too.. I constantly see some people praise it not for what actually makes it good, but by

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