{"id":218,"date":"2009-04-07T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-04-07T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:32:21","slug":"eclipse-not-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/eclipse-not-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse &#8230; not so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eclipse is a pretty good <strong>editor<\/strong>, but to me it still needs some effort to become a good IDE.<\/p>\n<p>I know those who&#8217;s familiar with Eclipse won&#8217;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&#8217;m not sure if it is Eclipse&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after tried Eclipse plug-in for Ada from AdaCore and Aonix, I decided I&#8217;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 &#8211; 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>So I will still keep looking for other IDE alternatives, I don&#8217;t think I need an IDE for my server side development, but as for client (GUI), it&#8217;s kind of a must, though I&#8217;m not using any interface builder like GLADE, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Writing GUI by using Win32 API directly is kind of fun &#8211; remind me old days while I was using x11 toolkit. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eclipse is a pretty good editor, but to me it still needs some effort to become a good IDE. I know those who&#8217;s familiar with Eclipse won&#8217;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 <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/eclipse-not-so-good\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}