i tried this trick, and saw a few interesting bugs. obviously this whole trick is an edge case, but i had some visual doubling of my large piece after certain clicks, and also i had an event happen where i heard the click sound stacked up 100 times then the app became unresponsive
fruit flies are used in research because they are relatively simple, well-studied stand-ins for a larger class of organism.
having a super minimal reference implementation of a complicated subject makes it easier to learn, and easier to build on in a way that will be broadly understandable way. it's a communication tool
Whiteboards are usually used for collaboration, and your coworkers or candidates can't really "opt out" of a smell, so it does make sense to be thoughtful about this (some people have strong aversions)
Thanks for being thoughtful. The smell bothers me so much that I removed the whiteboard from the wall of my office so that visitors couldn't write on it.
now that so many applications (slack/atom/spotify/signal) are built with Electron, there's tons of first class software in linux, plus with tiling window managers that are better than anything on macOS