I never found any IDE anywhere that I ever liked. After converting to
Unix in the 80s, I would always
have to take a vi back to dos/windoze. The tools on any decent Unix
blow away any IDE I ever saw. This
is probably why IDEs never caught on in Unix. Its not as if IDEs don't
exist, just nobody uses them.
Unix as a development environment is difficult to learn but I've yet
to see its equal when it comes to comparing
the functionality of its vast array of tools. For Java and most stuff
these days I tend to use XEmacs and have
it acting like an IDE but with a truely full featured editor.
I've used VAJava every working day for the last 18 months and
there is absolutely no incentive to load it on my personal development
box. I am putting it on my Linux box at work
so I can get out of the NT loop. VA was the last tool I needed
so I can reformat the rest of the drive :-) need the space
ya know.
For what its worth. I'd recommend the tools that come with most Unix
systems over any IDE because clumping a
bunch of lame tools together does not make a more powerful environment.
Of course I have had the luxury of
working in a Unix shop where we had our own toolsmith to build us a
Modular Development Environment (MDE )
based on traditional Unix tools all talking together with tooltalk.
So, I admit it, I'm spoiled. You will be too once you
get comfortable with the Unix tools, they're hard to learn but easy
to use.
Alex Rice wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:37:26 +0200,
Matthias Carlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:Matthias> I'm having problem finding a Java IDE for Linux I like, and I
Matthias> thought I should give it a try and ask here. What is everyone
Matthias> here using to develop their classes in Linux? I'm used to KAWA
Matthias> for Win32, but now after switching to Linux I've been unable
Matthias> to find a good replacement.Matthias> I would appreciate any recommendations I could get.
You might want to check out Visual Age for Java from IBM. They have a
beta for Linux.Alex Rice | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.swcp.com/~alrice
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