BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> IBM Upgrades Rational Development Tools, Beefs Up Support For Open Source
>> Eclipse
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | IBM updated its Rational 7.0 desktop development tools on Tuesday,
>> | and for the first time offered commercial support for the open
>> | source Eclipse programmer's workbench as well as the Rational
>> | tools that plug into it.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Java is deeply entrenched in the enterprise and continues to
>> | attract programmers. Some 45% of programmers used Java at the
>> | end of November, compared with 40% using C and C++ and 32% using
>> | C#, Microsoft's answer to Java, according to a survey by Evans
>> | Data. Visual Basic, once Microsoft's most popular language, fell
>> | in usage 35% since the spring.
>> |
>> | "Microsoft has dominated languages since the early 1990s but we
>> | are seeing much more parity now," said John Andrews, president of
>> | Evans Data.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061206/tc_cmp/196601778
>>
>
> Eclipse is just plain brillient, I don't often use an IDE, I prefer just
> having and editor window (vi), a compile console if its a compiled language
> and a run/debug console.
>
> But for programmers who don't like the commandline, Eclipse is in my view
> the best of the programmer IDEs. You have to give yourself time to work
> around it. For example the way it listed objects in the tree list I found
> confusing at first, but after a while I did see the logic in what they were
> doing.
Eclipse is getting far too kludgy IMO. Typical slow java app which is
losing its way.
It is no way near as handy and snappy to use as IDEs such as Visual
Studio. Obviously no where near as fast as emacs with ecb, cedet, cscope
and gdb.
Mind you I'm biased. It crashes under my Ubuntu Edgy :-;
>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
>>
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>> | Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
>> | poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
>> | company Evans Data.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
>> | during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
>> | other development language, according to a recently published
>> | survey.
>> `----
>>
>
> That might be becasue they have one language for local and web applications,
> they can build up their own usefull libs of code for both with no extra
> effort.
>
> But also because java tools are free, which counts for a lot with students
> since even with MS Student editions MS Visual basic costs them 25 or so
> bottles of 'Fizzy Brightly Coloured Get Drunk Quick' drink that they sup in
> their bars.
>
>
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