What I mean is up until about 8.2 it was managed by Sun microsystems. It isn't any more. I want to know if the direction it goes in will be the same?
On 2020/11/15 17:08:09, 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 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
