On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Lew <lewbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> I don't really think that would be of any use to the Android team and >> seems like kind of a time waste: I don't really see how that would >> make economic sense for Google. >> >> Developing an IDE is extremely nontrivial, eclipse has thousands of >> developers over the course of years and it still really sucks, I don't >> think Google could do better without a lot of effort invested, and I >> don't think it would help any of their developers (since I doubt too >> many Google developers really use eclipse all that much anyway..) > > > Based on what do you have this doubt? How many is "too many"? > How much is "all that much"? Do you have statistics?
It mostly seems to me like you're asking for statistics to try to make my answer seem irrelevant, because I honestly don't see any reason why I (a non Google employee) would have access to financial decisions or figures about the company. What is "all that much?" with respect to Google eclipse usage? It's a few posts on this forum and android-platform, reinforced by Google devs which has led me to believe that most Android developers (working on the lower level side of things) are using emacs or some other environment anyway: Eclipse doesn't really fit there as well. But maybe I'm wrong, and people at Google actually really love eclipse and would love to make it better. I couldn't find "too many" in my response anyway, so I'm not sure what you're referencing, but Eclipse has thousands of developers, depending on whether or not you specify core functionality or common extensions. It's no doubt that Eclipse could use some work as a whole, it kills it with memory, it's quite slow, and regularly breaks on commonly used extensions for updated verions. (This isn't really Google's fault, building an IDE is an entire project by itself...) ' kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en