Anyone else hate it?
I can see what they were trying to do; make it look like a proper scripting language, but I am finding it so much harder to use.
- Comments on separate lines, doubles the length of the script onscreen
- Indents instead of fold lines, so much harder to see what lines are members of a conditional, especially if it is long
- No more collapsing, so we have so scroll back and forth through long scripts
- Function names instead of plain language descriptions, don't scripting languages usually try to make it easier for users to know what the script is doing? This "feature" is doing the reverse.
- Manual indenting. Why? The only indenting that is required is in conditionals.
I'm sure there are others, but that is all I can think of at the moment.
I spent 5 minutes this morning looking at a simple Service Desk procedure trying to figure out where I should put a new 2 line conditional. I'm still not sure if I lined up the statement under the previous IF correctly.
If anything in scripting should have been improved, it should have been adding AND/OR options to IFs.