Thread by @nikitonsky

“Performance is a feature that enables using a tool in robust ways. When actions are instantaneous, users will use them more.“

“breaking backwards compatibility should be done rarely. [...] significant, clear benefits should exist and no reasonable way to maintain compatibility”

https://twitter.com/wbond/status/1362114807965626375

“The interface should be uncluttered, to the point, and consistent. Putting everything as a button, icon or tab can be as much of a detriment as having nothing visible. When many different things beg for the user’s attention, they start becoming noise.”

“[upside] to owning so much of our stack is that we can often tweak and fix things that are out of practical reach of other projects. We have no large open source projects we need to convince that our feature is worth the implementation. We can make that decision ourselves.”

“There are a number of things that help to make a user interface feel native, even when it isn’t using the OS-provided UI toolkit. One of the biggest things is to follow platform conventions.”

“We use less memory. We allocate fewer times. We invalidate the cache fewer times. We do less work. [...] Yes, we profile things to improve performance, but the little decisions add up!

Sublime Text runs fast because we make a point of doing less.”

“Our codebase is full of purpose-built code that does exactly what we need it to, and no more.”

“As [ST] has matured and we’ve added more engineering resources, we’ve tried to continue walking the balance of making the codebase more robust, while continuing to pursue simplicity”

All this is just a music to my ears. Makes me love @sublimehq even more!