That's really true.
There is no real strategic vision, roadmap that we strictly need to
follow. That can be considered as good and bad. Good in a way that
NetBeans really evolves freely, and might feel bad as the our efforts
are divided. But I think that's natural as for most of us what we
contribute is from our free time which vary over the time.
What I see here is a group of people who like NetBeans, have ideas that
they able to form into code, if not code then into bug reports, test
cases documentation, do some management stuff, etc.
Also it is good to see, that every now and then, these people gather
around features, they find important, and pull into that direction.
On 11/27/20 9:19 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
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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