But are they giving away their hard work out of altruism or market necessity? Somehow the choice of proprietary features seems to indicate the latter.
But good on them -- even if I think that NetBeans and Eclipse had more impact in open sourcing IntelliJ IDEA than anyone at Jetbrains. I'd still put my bets on them being only a minor player in the IDE market in a few years time since all the strong features are still for-pay and an Eclipse/NetBeans combo works better for me than IDEA ever did. Peter BoD wrote: > I think you were being trollish but I'm going to reply anyway just in case : > they're opening the source (remember : they're *giving away* their hard > work, so everybody can use it), and the only reaction you have is to > insult them? Nice! > > BoD > > Alex Turner wrote: > >> I hope you're being sarcastic. Honestly this is a huge slap in the >> face if you ask me. We're going to give you this awesome IDE for >> FREE!!!! Oh - except none of the awesome features that you need to >> actually get real work done are available, but that's okay - open >> source developers don't need any of that advanced crap like Spring, or >> JSF, or Tomcat support because they only develop rubbish anyway right? >> >> How insulting! If they were hemorrhaging users to NetBeans and >> Eclipse before, I hope the rest of the IntelliJ user base sees this >> for what it is and stop forking over hard earned cash to this >> organization. >> >> I ditched IntelliJ because they have no good AOP support, no good PHP >> support, lousy vi plugin, stupid project management (I mean seriously >> - who the hell only needs one project open at a time?), massive memory >> leaks that render the IDE unusable after a few hours of intensive use, >> problems with formatting code that isn't Java, poor hibernate query >> checking. >> >> The gating factor for NetBeans was maven support, which they added >> rather helpful in 6.7. >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> *yay* :) >>> >>> I think its time to dust off my IDEA plugin writing skills, I've not checked >>> out any OpenAPI changes since early in the 8 series. >>> >>> -- >>> Pull me down under... >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Huh, wow. We really have no excuse to start working on IDEA and >>>> netbens support! I'm stoked. >>>> >>>> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
