I'm a bit skeptical on the usefulness of this. As far as my coder nose goes, this has a really really bad smell and if I saw this sort of stuff in my codebase I would feel an urge to punch somebody.
From a productivity point of view, since this is presumably used by developers, we can safely assume these are people who spend at least 10 hours a day typing (coding, internet etc.). Most of our lives are spend behind a keyboard yes?
That being the case, we can safely assume that most of us are pretty good typists. Even a marginally good typist can punch the keyboard at 60 words per minute. Considering the average English word length of 5.7 characters that gives us a speed of 342 characters per minute, or 5.7 per second.
Do you really really need to increase your mental load for translating acronyms/abbreviations into words in order to save fractions of a second? Really?
From a productivity point of view, since this is presumably used by developers, we can safely assume these are people who spend at least 10 hours a day typing (coding, internet etc.). Most of our lives are spend behind a keyboard yes?
That being the case, we can safely assume that most of us are pretty good typists. Even a marginally good typist can punch the keyboard at 60 words per minute. Considering the average English word length of 5.7 characters that gives us a speed of 342 characters per minute, or 5.7 per second.
Do you really really need to increase your mental load for translating acronyms/abbreviations into words in order to save fractions of a second? Really?