Pros, Cons and Neutrals lists?

I thought it would be interesting for me to keep better track of the Pros, Cons and Neutrals that I discover/decide on and to find a way to visualise these nicely. The idea came to me when I was wanting to create a new Quarto blogpost and googled for a quick solution to find this issue where it’s noted

But a current limitation is that all are R focused rather than general quarto CLI tooling.

That gets to the heart of something that could put off some R users migrating from RMarkdown to Quarto… but also that’s the whole point of Quarto to be cross-platform.

Right! So what would a Pros / Cons / Neutrals list look like? Well, {bslib} has nice cards available. So it could be something like this:

✅ Quarto installs with few permissions

Makes it really easy to use in training.

😐 Quarto quick tools are difficult to make as it's a CLI!

RMarkdown has lovely features like `blogdown::new_post()` that can't really be added to Quarto as it's a CLI! Usability tools would need to be added to the CLI instead of the wrapping package.

⚙️ This doesn't need to change

That's the nature of the beast

❌ Quarto occassionally summons demons

It doesn't, that's a lie.

⚙️ Needs to change. Raised issue on GitHub.

Feature creep

Ever heard of feature creep? She’s a beast.

I decided the fastest way to record these would be in a Google Sheet that I can then read easily into a Shiny app. But then I thought - I’d love to MoSCoW this. Which then led to me building up a bunch of data validation rules:

… and gosh, I’d discovered I was procrastinating. I’m really aiming to up my data blogging output and feel part of the tech community again. So, let’s settle with something that’s workable… an iOS note that I can also modify on my laptop.