Eclipse … not so good

Eclipse is a pretty good editor, but to me it still needs some effort to become a good IDE.

I know those who’s familiar with Eclipse won’t agree with me, but the problem is, I can get a plug-in from somewhere and install it easily, but it always took me sometime on how to setup compilation/debug, etc. I’m not sure if it is Eclipse’ fundmental problem, or it is just because of careless plug-in developers, or actually it is totally my fault, means everybody has to do something to set it up and it is common sense.

Anyway, after tried Eclipse plug-in for Ada from AdaCore and Aonix, I decided I’d better try it out later whenever I know more about Eclipse, or the whole setup becomes seemless. GNAT GPS from AdaCore is doing as good as Eclipse in editor – I do like the feature of prompting while you key in, this is really helpful to newbie like me, as I cannot remember (actually sometime I even don’t know) all those interfaces from a specific package. However, GPS is doing pretty good with debug, I guess I got this conclusion just because I came from gdb world.

So I will still keep looking for other IDE alternatives, I don’t think I need an IDE for my server side development, but as for client (GUI), it’s kind of a must, though I’m not using any interface builder like GLADE, etc.

Writing GUI by using Win32 API directly is kind of fun – remind me old days while I was using x11 toolkit. 🙂