Surely, the whole point here is, we all are the new 'owners' - Craig included. It's quite a thought when you take a minute to considerate it.
On 15 November 2020 17:08:09 GMT, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: >New owners? What do you mean? > >Gj > >On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:23, Craig Manthorpe ><imababoonaph...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> I was a NetBeans devotee up until version 8.2, after which, well, you >know >> what happened. >> >> I chose that platform over all the other possible choices because it >> appeared to be designed and written by people who very clearly >understood >> the interests of a certain type of developer. As well as being able >to use >> it write Java code it can just as easily turn to GCC and LLVM >compilers and >> it could be used just as well to write HTML/CSS/Javascript. As well >as that >> it is compatible with Fortran compilers and I can, and have, written >and >> compiled Fortran code from within NetBeans 8.2. >> >> It is also a platform in its own right and, although it seemed to >pass >> people by, there were many very interesting and elaborate software >programs >> written for the NetBeans platform, many of which took it far from its >> familiar face as an IDE. It could be used as a platform to develop >software >> not only within NetBeans but also on top of the NetBeans platform. Be >it >> IDEs, web browsers, or other kinds of software. >> >> Since changing hands my main concern is its new owners will have a >> completely new set of ideas about where to take it and what aspects >to >> develop and which to jettison. My concern is, it may lose much of its >prior >> uniqueness and its fine tuning along a vertical stack of use-cases >taking >> in website design, Java, C++, Fortran and platform design. As it was >it's >> possible to develop either a website or a supercomputing application >using >> a computational physics library. >> >> How do its new developers envisage its new direction? What do you >intend >> to support, what do you intend to improve, and what, if anything do >you >> plan to drop? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> >> >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
