On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> My jerk comment. OSGi style modularity has not helped Eclipse compete > with IDEA. Why do we think it will help everyone else? > You make it sound as if somehow, Eclipse had failed and IDEA succeeded. At the very least, I see these two IDE's in a fifty-fifty tie in mind share, but in terms of ecosystem, number of plug-ins and side projects that were derived from the base IDE, Eclipse is far, far ahead of IDEA. And yes, I do believe that OSGi was a big factor in this lead, as was Eclipse's original vision (which was much more geared toward plug-ins since day one while IDEA focused on making an IDE first and make it extensible later). -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
