[ale] Question on IDE's

[Joseph A Knapka]

Bob Evans wrote:
> 
> No, not disk drives... Integrated Development
> Environments. I've been reading a little on Borland's
> Kylix in particular.
> 
> Oh, and IBM's 2-cd developers' kit is starting to
> appear in the mail about as frequently as AOL version
> 7...
> 
> I just wanted to get some feedback from anyone using
> IDE's on Linux fo C, C++, Java, whatever...

Eclipse <URL: http://www.eclipse.org> is an -awesome-
Java IDE out-of-the-box. It's open source and of
very high quality. It's supposed to be a toolkit
for building IDEs, and there are, in theory, folks
working on support for other languages. I know some
folks working on Python support in Eclipse.

The only thing Eclipse doesn't give you as far as
Java development goes is a UI builder. Personally I
hate those; they generally produce ugly unmaintainable
code, and 10-to-1 a human will eventually have to
maintain the generated code.

-- Joe

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