From: Robert McGovern <tarasis@...>
Date: 2002-11-18T07:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf 2002 Slides for FreeRIDE Presentation

Firstly, thank you to both Lyle & Rich for replying.

Rich Kilmer wrote:
> Extensibility IN RUBY was the key thing for us.  We wanted the IDE to be
> written in/extensible in Ruby itself.  The extensions we have in mind
> are numerous, and fall far outside what you traditionally see in IDEs.  

Hmm, I'll be interested to see / hear what they are about. Have to have 
a poke around your site.

One feature I heard about in Intellij that sounds quite "neat" is that 
it grays out unused variables & import statments.

> b) Eclipse is written in Java and is huge (54MB w/sdk).  Imagine telling
> folks to download that + Java to develop for this nice lightweight
> language.  Ouch.

Mm, it is a touch heavy weight. It is currently though my ide of choice 
at home simply because it does cover the 3 languages I dabble with 
C/C++, Java & Ruby. At work its Vi & Source Navigator :)

> c) Emacs...well if you are an Emacs user there will never be anything
> better, but for the rest of humanity...there is FreeRIDE ;-)

Agreed.

Well I look forward to trying FreeRide when you kick it out the door :)

Good luck & God Speed

Rob



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