today at 9:39 PM
Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
workbench.experimental.modernUI
On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/
[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...
today at 10:07 PM
Who else remembers when devs were complaining about flat design and the loss of corner radii, borders, and gradients? Everything old is new again.
P.S. Code is super late to the game on this UI trend. See Slack redesign circa 2023 https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...
P.P.S. I can’t believe I forgot jetbrains did it first.
today at 9:38 PM
It looks.. fine? I don't understand why people have to complain about every little thing.
today at 8:23 PM
Lots of unnecessary whitespace, tabs changing colour to be confusing about which is selected…
They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.
today at 8:53 PM
It definitely feels that way
today at 8:32 PM
I would call it more of a stain on your career when you use border radius like this.
today at 9:36 PM
A stain is a kind of mark :)
today at 9:53 PM
Round Rects Are Everywhere! (Andy Hertzfeld, 1981)
https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
today at 10:11 PM
Today, even most Apple devices are round rects.
today at 8:38 PM
I came for screenshots and there are none, nor are there in the linked issue this is marked a duplicate of.
today at 8:41 PM
Waterluvian's Law:
> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.
today at 9:20 PM
The following issue has a good number of screenshots in various comments: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/325240?timeline_p...
today at 8:40 PM
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_129#_modern-ui-prev...
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
today at 10:04 PM
I don't use VS Code, but when I look at the before and after in the video I can hardly tell the difference. I think the "border radius" problem is overwhelmed by the "too much crap on the screen" problem for me to really notice it that much.
today at 9:04 PM
Sorry! It seems the page can't be found
today at 9:12 PM
they seem to have a lot of broken pages, like the changelog :facepalm:
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_139
Internally, these companies are the real slopocolypse
today at 9:17 PM
Sorry! It seems the page can't be found
today at 8:41 PM
Screen shots? Just open the app, it is glaring with border radius.
today at 9:04 PM
You want them to install an app and then open it just to see images? That's crazy.
today at 9:19 PM
> Just open the app
I'd prefer not to.
today at 9:04 PM
He says to open VSCode
today at 8:39 PM
A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.
today at 8:47 PM
> It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes.
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
today at 9:25 PM
Phew, thank you, their sentence was utterly incomprehensible without your correction. I couldn't possibly have guessed what they meant. Thanks.
today at 9:57 PM
Some people really get sour when others politely point out grammatical mistakes they've made on a written forum. It's understandable as some people don't really do it tactfully and it can come across abrasive. Then there's a special kind of person who gets sour and snarky over someone politely pointing out grammatical mistakes other people have made.
today at 9:30 PM
Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?
today at 9:28 PM
"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,today at 8:33 PM
I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.
today at 9:48 PM
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.
today at 8:39 PM
Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.
today at 9:12 PM
Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
today at 9:56 PM
I had to traverse two symlinks to find it but the vim binary is 4.4MB in size here. It does link 13 libs including the mighty standard C library at 2.1MB.
I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.
My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)
today at 8:57 PM
This feels like the effective death of VSCode.
today at 9:14 PM
I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…
today at 9:24 PM
Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?
today at 10:06 PM
Everyone who’s using Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, or Windsurf, to start. And then of course the millions still using VS Code.