I myself have been using IntelliJ and loving it, but just now am
looking at Netbeans as it has a good open source API and code
that can be used to build other tools with. In fact it looks very
promising...
So it all depends what you want to do. An open source framework can
have many very useful long term advantages. On the other hand
sometimes they lack polish. Eclipse also has an open api, but the way
the framework is structured does not inspire confidence. It looks like
their windowing toolkit was designed to run best on windows...
Henry
On 31 Oct 2005, at 20:15, Joseph Dane wrote:
[snip]
My gut feeling is that the nature of software development causes
anxiety in programmers, and this in turns causes them to become
inordinately attached to their tools and frameworks. My
mechanical/civil/electrical engineering buddies don't seem to be
afflicted with this, but then they can rely on certain other things:
the tensile properties of steel, the flow capacity of a given pipe,
the speed of light, etc. Software people have no such solid facts on
which they can depend, so they put all their faith in their tools.
I propose a new field of study: software sociology. Who's with me?
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