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Originally Posted by shawger
Hi,
I'm glad that you are undertaking the work to get a quality IDE working for FIRST. However, I'm confused about a couple of things.
Why are you writing an entirely new program when you could create scripts or plugins for one of the incredibly functional editors already out there? (VIM, EMACS, Eclipse, jEdit etc.) Not that I have a big problem with another editor, but it seems like you're reinventing the wheel a little bit here.
Also, why .NET? That leaves out a significant userbase of Linux and Mac users. Then these users will have to duplicate the fine work you're doing on the Windows platform if they want similar functionality. See the problem?
Again, please take these as suggestions, not angry demands.
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What else are we going to do during the 10 months out of the year we're not building a robot?d
But, really I think the ide a behind this and other projects similar us that the technology er're using for FIRST has been stolen from other purposes. We should have an all in one soultion for programming, downloading, SVN, and any other things I can't think of right now.
As for using .NET .net is fast, easy, and the people who are using linux or Mac for programming are the people who have akready used another IDE, and won't change anyway.