Actual professionals use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate or bring to the forefront whatever they need in Intellij (the JB product I use)
If you are clicking through menus all day or are otherwise negatively affected to such a degree by a visual change like this, you are an amateur
So really, JetBrains is bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of... amateurs
This world for amateurs exists exists, as a crutch, within the larger world of the professional product.
However, the world of professional usage of Intellij remains essentially unchanged (granted, the new icons and extra negative space are annoying, they just are not significant)
You don't even need to learn all the shortcuts - I cleared my PHPStorm UI long ago. If I need something in a menu, I open the Actions search menu and start typing. If I need to look into code, double tap shift for the All search menu and go ham.
Sprinkle in one or two for e.g. git branches and you get most of the speed you need.
I don't need to look at a splatter of information on my screen - I need code and a select few other pieces.
Same thing happened at a previous company I worked at about one year into the pandemic.
We still gave the guy until the end of the week to prove he could be useful.
He wasn't, so we let him go, but we would have kept him on if he was competent. Despite the fraud. Because it was such a pain to find a good dev at that time (not easy now, but not as hard, subjectively)
Ain't that the truth? But seriously, if you want a small town with a functioning downtown that isn't ridiculously priced, you are going to have much better odds of finding something east of the Mississippi River. Because the type of town you are looking for needed to be established before the automobile became big.
Geneva, IL and its neighbor to the north (St Charles) are really, really nice. But they're not a cheap places unless you are comparing them to coastal towns. Try this: make a list of all the counties in all the eastern states. Find the county seat of each one. Look at a satellite photo of the downtown area and if it seems solid, check out the street view. If that is also promising, look at real estate prices. Narrow it down to a list of 25-30 towns. And go visit them.
It’s really just the same. The name is escaping me. It basically rips out the parts they didn’t want people to use, configures it how apple wants, and is pulled from the repositories. Just like Java it’s the same shit with some patches. It’s not a true fork.
Actual professionals use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate or bring to the forefront whatever they need in Intellij (the JB product I use)
If you are clicking through menus all day or are otherwise negatively affected to such a degree by a visual change like this, you are an amateur
So really, JetBrains is bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of... amateurs
This world for amateurs exists exists, as a crutch, within the larger world of the professional product.
However, the world of professional usage of Intellij remains essentially unchanged (granted, the new icons and extra negative space are annoying, they just are not significant)
TLDR: git gud, use a keyboard