Re: Enter splits lines

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Vern

On 8/20/2018 1:30 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> 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.