On 11/1/05, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, sorry, I replied to the wrong message, I was trying to get a > response from Agustin, not necessarily from you; he did make the Eclipse > comparison, and he said he liked that IDE better for OO stuff. But maybe > that's because the unicode works and there is better refactoring (please > be more specific, Agustin?) ?
The answer is very simple: I can code faster. Eclipse is a code-centric IDE (at least for the Java's views) with a lot of very useful features to speed up the coding/refactoring process. Lazarus, in that sense, is as good as Delphi; with source code management tools that are a little simplistic (not entirely a bad thing). That may be enough for a lot of people, but it certainly isn't for me. Of course this comparison means absolutely nothing given that we're talking about completely different programming languages like ObjectPascal (and the various fpc supported dialects) and Java (and/or C++). Also I'm comparing a tool that's backed up huge corporations against one that's developed with no corporate sponsorship (AFAIK). At the end of the day it all comes down to which tool generates better profit margins (I could say something about NetBeans vs Eclipse, but that would be waaaaay off-topic). For my personal projects I don't have a problem with Lazarus, or any other IDE/RADs, as long as their "fun" to use (Lazarus is) and free (speech). _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
