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by tomwphillips 712 days ago
Why “modern”? I suggest you use more descriptive adjectives.
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I always felt that if you have nothing to say about your project you say it's modern. They just coded it, so it must be
I think the approach is a Mac-first app that follows Apple's design language, no?
Yup, that's what "modern" means to me in this context.

Thought it was totally clear.

It looks like and acts like it was built for Sonoma, not for Sierra.

That didn’t occur to me.

As an IPython/Jupyter user for over a decade and Mac user for two decades, it’s not something I personally care about or an issue I’ve felt.

Well sure, plenty of users don't care about aesthetics.

And the Jupyter notebook interface certainly isn't aesthetically pleasing. Colab is not as bad, but it's still not nice.

But some people do care about aesthetics, and this interface is actually aesthetically pleasing.