From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-18T08:11:45+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf 2002 Slides for FreeRIDE Presentation

From: "Robert McGovern" <tarasis@btopenworld.com>


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

Oooooooh, there's a LOT more than that: all sorts of completion, method lists,
code templates, type error alerts, refactoring, JUnit/Ant/CVS integration...

It is one of the most impressive pieces of software I have ever seen.  However,
I have to say that Ruby doesn't need half the features IntelliJ provides
because it is so lightweight (yet durable).  Basically, Java *requires* an
intelligent IDE to make it usable.  Ruby has most of this usability out of the
box.

I'm sure we'll see some very clever features plugged in to FreeRIDE, though.
Even more if the interpreter can be made to generate useful information to
reveal program structure, etc.

Gavin