just one more time that sun has completely, totally amazed me with their,
well... badoingas.[Brady
Gaster]
Seems that Sun's announced their intent to create a new
IDE for Java. They also claim that they're going to get 10 million new
developers with it. The phrase "pull the other one" comes to mind.
I also can't help but wondering whether perhaps Sun is attempting to
replicate the success that Microsoft has had with their Visual Studio line,
as well as the free Web Matrix Project (hmm...Web Matrix Project...Project Rave,
no similarities there...at least it's not as obvious as JSP, or JDBC).
OTOH, even if Sun is following again, rather than leading, if they follow
through and create a useful IDE for Java, that's all to the good IMO. The more
solid tools there are for developers, the better. Whether or not Sun's claims of
the developers that will flock to Rave are accurate or not, they still may have
something useful to offer. After all, the developers of C#, while not
cloning Java as some claim, certainly took advantage of the knowledge of what
worked well in Java and what didn't. If Sun follows the same recipe with Project
Rave, they may end up with a useful IDE, and one that Microsoft can learn from
for their future tools.