What do people here use as an IDE?

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Fri Oct 29 13:15:23 PDT 2010


On 13/10/2010 08:07, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 13/10/10 4:15 AM, so wrote:
>> Does Java come with a standard gui library? Yes.
>> Does C come with a standard gui library? No.
>>
>> C didn't need a gui library to be successful, and didn't come with one.
>> On the other hand Java/C# have to have one, packed, and they do come
>> with (at least)one.
>>
>> If your language has a "system programming" in its feature lists, these
>> kind of libraries have very low priority, let alone specific IDE.
>
> C didn't need a GUI library because there was no competition with a GUI
> library.
>
> Like it or not, in this day and age, people expect GUI libraries and
> IDEs. In fact, most programmers have no idea how to compile code without
> an IDE. Moreover, most people think that the IDE and the language are
> the *same thing* (evidenced by the number of people that tag their C++
> theory questions as "visual studio" on stackoverflow.com).
>
> I agree that solving the compiler bugs and language issues are top
> priority, but after that, I'd say IDE and GUI library come next (doesn't
> have to be a standard GUI library -- just any robust library).

I would a say a modern IDE, together with other toolchain programs 
(debugger, build tools) are much more important than a GUI library. This 
due to the fact that they would be used by many more developers than 
those who would want to use a GUI library.


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer


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