Really appreciate the design from the screenshots.
Is it a few hero sponsors away from notarization, by the way? :)
I can't recall thinking much of it just a couple of short years ago...
Oh thank you! Yes, spinning up incredibly convincing projects is too cheap, and I'm uh changing my security posture or something like that. Mulling it over at least. (And of course: these comments are NOT at all specific to this project in particular! Speaking very generally here.)
Thanks :)
* JetBrains does bloated Java instead of bloated Electron. Tusk is truly native to the OS.
* JetBrains does upsell higher tiers. Tusk does not. Especially won't offer an AI service in the tool that connects to your databases.
* DevTools should not distract the user. VS Code was an OG offender, but JetBrains too has too many notifications.
* Tusk is offline, doesn't connect back to a server for telemetry, updates, Ai, or anything else.
But…
> * JetBrains does bloated Java instead of bloated Electron. Tusk is truly native to the OS.
The bloat in JetBrains is negligible comparedy to what it can do and its predecessor eclipse.h
> * JetBrains does upsell higher tiers. Tusk does not. Especially won't offer an AI service in the tool that connects to your databases.
I have never really seen this as an issue except when opening a new project and even then it’s small notifications.
> * Tusk is offline, doesn't connect back to a server for telemetry, updates, Ai, or anything else.
This is probably true but JetBrains is not totally unusable offline.
I wouldn’t completely dismiss JetBrains but everyone has their preferences for whatever suits them better.
I'm pretty happy at the moment editing in vim invoked from psql with \e - which has been my setup for way more than a decade now, but I do miss isql (Query Analyzer) from SQL Server 2000, which was just about perfect.
While macOS might have more uses, there's more database clients already fighting it out.
Postgres.app is server-only, no?
Quick poll — Are you macOS or GNOME?
- less information density
- wasted space
- phone tier UX
- optimized for touch screens
- lacks depth
Lazy convergence that ignores how people actually use desktops
You may disagree with said guidelines, of course, but the author can't reasonably be criticised for following the platform standards.
The rest is subjective. But Adwaita / Gnome is what's on my machine, so I follow their design principles.
