On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Antonio Vieiro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...Should NetBeans support Apache Spark? Tomcat? The Go programming > > language? R? Whatever? Just find a big pool of developers and ask them > > what to do next, what they need, what they want... > > Funding such work is a problem - I could tell you guys that I want to > use NetBeans for Go, but why would someone work for free on > implementing that? Someone has already been working for free on implementing that: http://tunnelvisionlabs.com/products/demo/goworks Here's another one: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/62162/go-project Here's another one: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/25606/go And there's probably more, in various states of usefulness and stability. Under Apache, what we'll be able to have is a central place where everyone working on Go can work together. We've never had such a central neutral place before, it's always been various people working on their own outside Sun or Oracle and never without an organized structure for interacting and co-operating with each other. There's very few technologies and languages for which some kind of support doesn't already exist for NetBeans over the years -- all created for free by enthusiastic supporters of one technology or another. In answer to your question -- people work for free to create tooling for a technology, such as Go, in order to promote that technology, for whatever reason. Gj
