New owners? What do you mean? Gj
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:23, Craig Manthorpe <imababoonaph...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 > > > >
