I have one more comment on this thread which is not so much a comment as a rant.

Why oh why is there no end-all-be-all set of development tools produced by the open source community?

Emacs and vim are fantastic and have been 100% sufficient (and then some) for 99.9% of my development needs, but of all things the open source community could produce well, I would imagine that slick development tools would be up there at the top.

Not only would the interface be better because it would be a tool developed by developers for developers (finally coders could come up with an interface without worrying so much about confusing cluebies) but the potential level of appreciation from the community I would imagine would be unbeatable.

Not that there aren't lots of good open source IDEs out there, but there is no single product that has wide industry and user support out there. I would really like to see industry leaders like Sun, IBM, HP, Red Hat, SuSE, etc. do for development environments what Sun has already done for office suites and Netscape has done for browsers.

It would be nice to see a first-rate basic core environment put together by these players which they could then add proprietary extensions or plug-ins to for their profit-making motives (e.g., Sun could sell a version which would include a first-rate set of Java Beans and templates). Everyone would benefit: The gains that those companies see from open source would only be improved because development would be easier and more accessible, the development community would be happier and more productive, and IBM and others could save development costs by not worrying about creating the core functionality for their proprietary IDEs, rather, they would only have to focus on adding to the IDE what they do best.

Anyhoo, that's my rant for the day FWIW.

In reply to Re: Open Source Perl IDE by Starky
in thread Open Source Perl IDE by staeryatz

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