I really love the concept of the product! I downloaded it played with it a bit, but I found it very unintuitive, and had some serious UX issues. I'm on a Mac.
* Scrolling the preview would often pan the entire window
* Panning the window was really sluggish
* It was really hard to drag lines, it felt like I had to be pixel perfect--I've been such a big fan of the idea of visual editor, but I really started to see what this user was talking about with wrist issues [0]
* It was really hard to modify a block of code, I tried mouse click + every different modifier I could think of, it felt random what allowed me to edit text, and then it kept "exiting" the text edit mode.
* Modifying a block of code felt like it was lacking a lot of text editing that a modern editor like IntelliJ or VS Code has.
* The auto complete had something weird going on, I don't exactly remember, but I think one problem was I couldn't use my mouse to scroll the list
* Small things surprised me, like how much white space mattered, like if I had an "<operator> .map", it wouldn't work, and I had to edit it to be "<operator>.map", which makes sense--but it was sooooooo hard to remove that space, because the editor kept exiting text editor mode by small user input mistakes
I kept thinking it was just a learning curve, so I really tried to not let little things get to me, and read the docs, but in the end I just gave up. It was just too hard.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27706356
* Scrolling the preview would often pan the entire window
* Panning the window was really sluggish
* It was really hard to drag lines, it felt like I had to be pixel perfect--I've been such a big fan of the idea of visual editor, but I really started to see what this user was talking about with wrist issues [0]
* It was really hard to modify a block of code, I tried mouse click + every different modifier I could think of, it felt random what allowed me to edit text, and then it kept "exiting" the text edit mode.
* Modifying a block of code felt like it was lacking a lot of text editing that a modern editor like IntelliJ or VS Code has.
* The auto complete had something weird going on, I don't exactly remember, but I think one problem was I couldn't use my mouse to scroll the list
* Small things surprised me, like how much white space mattered, like if I had an "<operator> .map", it wouldn't work, and I had to edit it to be "<operator>.map", which makes sense--but it was sooooooo hard to remove that space, because the editor kept exiting text editor mode by small user input mistakes
I kept thinking it was just a learning curve, so I really tried to not let little things get to me, and read the docs, but in the end I just gave up. It was just too hard.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27706356