Re: Enter splits lines

Tim, RDI is already based on a modern IDE which is already open source
right? The fact that IBM doesn't really keep up with the bleeding edge of
Eclipse technology isn't that much of a problem. Same would happen on
whichever IDE they built over, and the community isn't really that large
compared to some of the other communities that use Eclipse (PHP for
example). I have a hard time believing that RDI would be any more
successful on a different platform, open source or not.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:07 AM Tim Fathers <X700-IX2J@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think the reason Microsoft development tools are so good it that they
have thousands of programmers in-house developing Microsoft's own
applications with them and, most likely, using the tools themselves to
develop the tools. RDi is a niche product and I suspect the developers
don't get that much opportunity to write real RPG or COBOL applications
with their own tools.

In my opinion, IBM should drop the silly price tag, port RDi to a modern
IDE like VS Code and open source it so that the developers that actually
use the product in anger (literally in many cases 😊 ) can contribute to
it. There are a couple of open source alternatives already but the number
of people in our environment who have the skills and inclination to write
them is small and to my mind it would make far more sense for those
resources to be pooled with IBM's on a single open source project.