george williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been using gcc with a minimal emacs dev
> environment and it works fine. Are there
> any great reasons to move to a prettier dev
> solution like MetroWorks?
Depending on your application "support" could be a great
reason. If you're not writing an app you have to support much, then
you may not care.
Having a visual UI builder is nice. PilRC is okay, but rather
awkward; as much as I generally like text-based tools, it's sort of
silly when the end result is inherently graphical and slightly
arbitrary. Somewhere deep on my to-do list is to write a graphical
pilot UI builder in Java, so that I can use it on a pile of platforms
and not worry about gross Win32 and X UI stuff (no offense to the Mac
community; I simply don't know if Mac UI development is as terrible as
the others).
The Metrowerks debugger has some advantages over gcc as well,
in terms of integration with the platform.
- Nathan
