Re: Enter splits lines (was: Officially the weirdest thing I've seen in RDi)

' Eclipse is over 15 years old, not sure I'd call that "modern"'

What do you get if you apply that same logic to IBMi? ;)



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From: Tim Fathers [mailto:X700-IX2J@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 7:27 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Enter splits lines (was: Officially the weirdest thing I've seen in RDi)

Eclipse is over 15 years old, not sure I'd call that "modern" 😊 In my experience it's buggy bloatware and the IDEs based on it are the ones I like to use least.

Although Eclipse is open-source, I was referring to the RDi parts of it that should also be open sourced so that third parties don't have to recreate the wheel when it comes to parsing the source code and keeping the syntax up-to-date, which is a job clearly better done by the IBM chaps.

You may be right about it not being more successful either way, but I believe RDi would have had much greater adoption had it been a simple, free download from the IBM website and it would be a superior product with the additional input of the developer community.