On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:37 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > Woooooo. The IDE features that exist today in Eclipse and IntelliJ > are far more advanced than the IDE's of yesteryear. If you're > thinking, "Hey, I've used Microsoft Visual Studio. I know what IDE's > have to offer." You are dead wrong. Likewise if you've used Borland > Turbo C++ or the like. There is no comparison between prior IDEs and > the modern Java IDEs.
Just a few things modern IDEs offer: - refactoring (the big one in my opinion) - code documentation tools - planning and prioritizing features (TODO) - On-the-fly error checking - automating the build and packaging system I'd be interested to hear of the things others would add to this list Alas none of them, even Eclipse offer decent vim key-bindings. :( All the vi bindings plugins for eclipse really suck. What we really need is an eclipse editor class that implements the complete vim system, rather than just key bindings. Michael > > I suppose you could say that IDE improvements have been only > incremental, and I'd say that language features in modern languages > have been only incremental. > > -Bryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
