IMO this is great news; I know several developers at work who will now take IDEA for a spin (and I will help them where they can). In our case we have a dedicated team that does frontend work, and they can continue to use Eclipse. Those of us who work on the backends/services can work comfortably within the community edition, I think.
The sad thing, though, is how the plugin issue is so divisive. I'm sure there are plugins close to the editor and compiler infrastructure which would be hard to port between IDEs. But there are useful plugins that have ports to all three IDEs, last time I looked. One would hope that we could aim, as a community, for more of that. There was a movement years ago for a cross-IDE plugin compatibility API, but they couldn't come to an agreement. If anything, rather than "us vs. them" in the IDE wars, we should encourage plugin developers to work towards cross-IDE portability. Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
