On Friday 18 May 2007, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > I guess a lot of developers will frown upon this, but I think > Java and Eclipse is the best fit to develop integrated > development environments also for electronic circuits. Steven > Rubin of Staticfreesoft (Electric) also went from c to java > (via qt3) and found it a whole lot easier to get the things > right in Java.
If you want to use Eclipse, that's ok. It a bad idea to require it, or any other particular development environment. If a plug-in interface to Eclipse is useful, that is fine with me. Anything compiled in, even if it can be turned off, even if it is off by default, isn't good. I can understand Steve Rubin's comment that Java is more productive that C. C++ offers most of the same advantages and more. The biggest downside of C++ that I see is that beginners can be overwhelmed by it if they try to see it all at once. Java is a reasonable subset of C++, with some syntax changes. I would not be surprised if the reason for choosing Java over C++ is pressure from Sun. After I moved gnucap (then ACS) to C++ from C, things got a whole lot easier. Things got easier again when STL became mature enough to use, when templates really worked .... Even the old C++ without all that helped. The move from Ratfor to C helped a lot too, but that is ancient history. On the other hand ... the ACS move to C++ was one factor in spawning NG-spice. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user