The big idea of RF is that you can create commands that read very much like English text. "Log into database" could very well be a command. "Write data into field" could be another. I totally see where they're coming from, because the immediate intent of the code is obvious at a glance, but the issues start when some test isn't passing. We found that IDE tooling was awful (even syntax highlighting struggled at times) and everything was defined under several layers of abstraction. For instance, that "Log into database", both the command "Log into" and "database" are defined somewhere, but you'd really struggle to know where. Sometimes it's your own codebase, sometimes it's some library that you can't find because it was built in.
It was hellish and the amount of false negatives we got made it unusable.
https://lobste.rs/c/g2rnvj
