I was a NetBeans devotee up until version 8.2, after which, well, you know what happened.
I chose that platform over all the other possible choices because it appeared to be designed and written by people who very clearly understood the interests of a certain type of developer. As well as being able to use it write Java code it can just as easily turn to GCC and LLVM compilers and it could be used just as well to write HTML/CSS/Javascript. As well as that it is compatible with Fortran compilers and I can, and have, written and compiled Fortran code from within NetBeans 8.2. It is also a platform in its own right and, although it seemed to pass people by, there were many very interesting and elaborate software programs written for the NetBeans platform, many of which took it far from its familiar face as an IDE. It could be used as a platform to develop software not only within NetBeans but also on top of the NetBeans platform. Be it IDEs, web browsers, or other kinds of software. Since changing hands my main concern is its new owners will have a completely new set of ideas about where to take it and what aspects to develop and which to jettison. My concern is, it may lose much of its prior uniqueness and its fine tuning along a vertical stack of use-cases taking in website design, Java, C++, Fortran and platform design. As it was it's possible to develop either a website or a supercomputing application using a computational physics library. How do its new developers envisage its new direction? What do you intend to support, what do you intend to improve, and what, if anything do you plan to drop? Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
