On Friday 18 May 2007, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
I guess a lot of developers will frown upon this, but I think
Java and Eclipse is the best fit to develop integrated
development environments also for electronic circuits. Steven
Rubin of Staticfreesoft (Electric) also went from c to java
(via qt3) and found it a whole lot easier to get the things
right in Java.
If you want to use Eclipse, that's ok. It a bad idea to require
it, or any other particular development environment.
If a plug-in interface to Eclipse is useful, that is fine with
me. Anything compiled in, even if it can be turned off, even
if it is off by default, isn't good.
I can understand Steve Rubin's comment that Java is more
productive that C. C++ offers most of the same advantages and
more. The biggest downside of C++ that I see is that beginners
can be overwhelmed by it if they try to see it all at once.
Java is a reasonable subset of C++, with some syntax changes.