[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Building an IDE (that doesn't suck)

[Paul Stoffregen]

Textmate looks like it has a LOT of features.  I'll have to get my mac 
out to get it a try.

If you had to make a short list of the most important features in 
textmate lacking from the arduino ide, what would they be?


-Paul



Greg Borenstein wrote:
> For me, the problem with IDEs is that they tend to trade away solid 
> general purpose text-editing capabilities in order to get integration 
> with some specific kind of environment. For example, the Arduino IDE, 
> which does a great job giving you access to things like libraries, the 
> build process etc., but is just a sucky place to edit text which is 
> most of what you do when you're writing a program.
>
> So, for my part, a microcontroller IDE would do best to integrate a 
> totally kick ass existing text-editing system (like TextMate on the 
> mac) with some tools that actually help you do your development (build 
> process, dependency management, and simulation tools are the obvious 
> ones for micro dev).
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -- Greg