Barnet Wagman wrote:
>
> I've been doing my Java development using emacs (actually xemacs) but am
> considering switching over to Forte (nee netbeans).
>
> Before I take the plunge in a non-trivial way, I'd like to hear other
> people's opinions about Forte, both in terms of its design and
> stability. (Early versions were unstable and/or unusably slow, but the
> current version, 1.0 build 849, seems ok, at least so far.)
>
> Obviously, Forte is a very different animal than emacs, and has some
> attractive features. particularly re building gui's. On the other hand,
> emacs is reliable, stable, etc.
Emacs+JDE offers enough functionality for the day-to-day work. The
problem with Forte is that it doesn't offer any support for languages
other than Java. Say a couple of years from now, Java is not hot
anymore and you want to learn a new language. If you use Emacs, you can
be sure that there will be a mode for that language. If you use Forte,
you have to abandon ship and learn a new tool.
I don't see anything wrong with Forte, though. In fact, I liked it.
But my machine is too old (Pentium 200/64MB RAM) to make Forte to run at
a reasonable speed.
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Weiqi Gao
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