Filip Konvička a écrit :
Cool!
However, I can't resist to ask :-) Have you considered writing an
Eclipse plugin instead?
Cheers,
Filip
Torsten Anders a écrit :
Great you are working on this!
What is the reason you are developing an IDE from scratch instead of
extending, e.g., Eclipse to support Mozart?
Best,
Torsten
Hi! I hope I won't offend you, Filip and Torsten, if I answer in the
same mail, since your comments are the same.
An Eclipse plugin ? yes, I do have considered this option! But I have a
bad experience of Eclipse as an IDE for other languages than Java, and I
don't know if the problem was the extension for this language or Eclipse
itself. I understand Eclipse is an industry standard today but at first,
I thought a specialized IDE would be better.
What I think is that IDE today are too object-oriented *oriented*. And
I'm not talking about visual designers. Just look at code completion
tools for instance, it's all about navigation through classes and
methods, etc. If an IDE would ever be developed for a multi-paradigm
language like Oz, it would have new kind of tools. If code completion
help when dealing with object oriented hierarchy, what would help when
developing with constraints ? or with logic ? I'm very keen to help
answering these questions at the crossroad of technology and ergonomics.
I don't know if Eclipse can be extended with such tools. Isn't it easier
to develop something from scratch ?
I thought about xul because development is XML-based. No compilation.
Plus, what someone will see with Windows, it will be the same with Linux
and MacOSX. Xul applications are light weight and rely on web standards
like RDF and CSS. Another reason is that I have (very crazy) ideas about
remote development that xul seems able to let me try.
Anyway ideas are just ideas, and what's important is what users want.
I'm open to any suggestion!
Ludwig
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