That depends on you now. In which direction do you want to go?

Gj

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 00:28, Cloeren Jackson <badassmo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What I mean is up until about 8.2 it was managed by Sun microsystems. It
> isn't any more. I want to know if the direction it goes in will be the
> same?
>
> On 2020/11/15 17:08:09, Geertjan Wielenga
> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
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