On 22-Dec-98 Kirk Hutchinson wrote:
> First of all, XEmacs is not an IDE. It's a code editor - that's it.
True Emacs (XEmacs) was not necessarily designed to be an IDE, though it can
be used as one... which means that it is and IDE (and a whole lot more). Some
people can handle using Emacs as an IDE. I personally just use Emacs as an
editor... not an IDE, mail reader or web browser... though I could.
> It's really too bad that more IDEs are not available for Linux.
> Personally, I favor Symantec's Visual Cafe over any other Java IDE,
> but it's not available for Linux. I remember seeing an ad for a
> product called "NetBeans", or something like that, that was a real
> IDE, and it was written in Java - so theoretically it could run on
> Linux. I tried it on NT, but it was too slow for my taste. But,
> it may be worth looking into if you REALLY want to develop Java on
> Linux.
I think that NetBeans is going to be a great IDE once the speed issue is dealt
with. I used it for a while, and despite the fact that I could not use Emacs
with it (I hope they fix that someday), it was very easy to use and helped me
get some prototypes up and running very quickly.
Perhaps when TowerJ supports AWT/Swing so I can compile a native binary, then
NetBeans will not be too slow to use. It would be nice if there was some
generic platform independent (and free) IDE out there somewhere, with the power
of Emacs that could be easily modified to fit anyones needs... but I have not
found such a splendid product yet. Perhaps I should just write one... too bad
Java is so slow or I would.
--jason
