Chrome dev tool is a mess of half baked, half implemented, inconsistent ideas.
Take the CSS editing, incredibly annoying, impractical, opaque behaviour. Or every option using regexes so just to exclude some files you have to muck around with the bloody things. Or the hover to display local value of variables kinda working, but not always, but highlighting usually works, but watch variables are stupidly in the tiny width window to the right so you can't read the end of the variable name which is usually the really important bit.
And don't even get me started about their shitty redesign of the files making it harded to find the local files, the only ones you actually care about, and giving far too much visibility to external libraries.
But then they do genius things like unobtrusively display the method input variables.
Don't get me wrong, dev tools is useful, but quite obviously designed by a programmer who's experimenting with various different UX paradigms. Chrome dev tools is a joke when you put it against a real dev tool like visual studio.
Take the CSS editing, incredibly annoying, impractical, opaque behaviour. Or every option using regexes so just to exclude some files you have to muck around with the bloody things. Or the hover to display local value of variables kinda working, but not always, but highlighting usually works, but watch variables are stupidly in the tiny width window to the right so you can't read the end of the variable name which is usually the really important bit.
And don't even get me started about their shitty redesign of the files making it harded to find the local files, the only ones you actually care about, and giving far too much visibility to external libraries.
But then they do genius things like unobtrusively display the method input variables.
Don't get me wrong, dev tools is useful, but quite obviously designed by a programmer who's experimenting with various different UX paradigms. Chrome dev tools is a joke when you put it against a real dev tool like visual studio.