Visual Studio got a lot better after Microsoft finally pulled their heads out of their butts and made it 64-bit. But, at least for .NET development, it is no longer required. VS Code is a viable alternative with some extensions, and JetBrains Rider is downright awesome.
Even if you don’t like Visual Studio specifically, you probably still use some kind of IDE rather than a plain text editor plus command line tools. Even basic things like syntax highlighting are tremendously useful features that significantly reduce cognitive load.
One use case I can think of for soemthing like Studio Binder is their scriptwriting tools. You can do that all in a word processor, and there are probably even good templates for it. But presumably Studio Binder’s script editor is built to ensure all your formatting adhere’s to existing industry standards. It probably has a custom spell checker to enforce some of this. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it has built in functionality for tying scenes to a shot list, tracking locations and props as they are introduced, etc. I don’t know if they actually do these things, but they are features I would likely build into such software based on my own experience that regular word processors and project planners don’t really do.
Tools with features and UX designed around a specific workflow can significantly reduce the cognitive load of that workflow. It’s why these products gain so much traction to begin with.
Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
Some games that did it for me recently:
Relax buddy, it’s just a very old joke.
FreeBSD absolutely is UNIX, it is descended from Berkeley Software Distribution, itself a descendant of UNIX 5.
But the joke isn’t so much about the lineage of these operating systems, rather their design philosophy.
Linux is UNIX made by people who hate Windows.
FreeBSD is UNIX made by people who love UNIX.
Give FreeBSD a shot.
the one that made me laugh recently was when they tried to paint alternatives to rcs as antiquated.
rcs doesn’t even support end-to-end encryption, something even imessage does.
an open, industry standard that everyone supports would be awesome, but rcs simply isn’t it. rcs was designed to make telecom companies happy, not to be an actually good messaging protocol.