Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 19:01:20 +0200
"Volcz" <volcz at kth.se> wrote:

> On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 02:05:51 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > </endrant>
> 
> Completely agree with Manu! I work in the Java + telecom world of 
> programming and recently graduated, so that's the majority of my 
> experience. From what I've seen and experienced is that most 
> today programmers can't live without an IDE and a rock solid tool 
> chain.
> 
> I've seen many solutions posted in this thread to parts of the 
> problems, eg auto complete, debugging etc.
> The thing with an IDE is that it has "JUST WORK" it should work 
> with all the different components seamlessly.
> The question I would like to ask is how can WE as a COMMUNITY 
> improve this situation?
> Official IDE support?
> Official "IDE components"?
> Roadmap?
> 
> Other languages like Java have corporate backing. What difference 
> makes this? Why doesn't we have a roadmap? How does other open 
> source communities work and what can we learn from them?
> 
> Sorry for the un-structure of my post.
> 

To be honest, I never found Eclipse to "just work", especially with
anything other than Java. Actually, for anything but Java I always found
it to be an unusable nightmare (But good for Java even if less than
perfect). Just FWIW.