Re: GnatBench (from GPL edition)

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> My understanding is that to write Eclipse plugins you have to write
> in Java.

You could try Ada, too, because there are two Ada compilers emitting
Java byte code (fairly well). Compilers for some other languages
do this, too. Sun is spending money on getting Scala and Ruby
running on the JVM. All languages are integrated with the Java
class library then.


> I understand the market pressures, but on a practical basis, I don't
> understand the big deal about bloated IDEs anyway. Everything that is
> worthwhile in an IDE is language and compiler-specific anyway (debuggers,
> error messages, syntax, symbol browsing, project management),

Itegration (like in document centric working) just in case the
only integration you practically get on Windows is integratation
of the Microsoft operating system with other Microsofts offerings.
(Yesterday I heard that in Norway, an ISO country vote of 5 "For",
19 "Against" counts as a "For". This vote was about the planned
ISO standardized office documents file formats. Microsoft
keeps advertising theirs as "Office Open XML" (in this word order) ...)

> so what can
> this empty framework actually accomplish?

In a sense, the same thing that Ada was meant to accomplish?
So that there aren't so many IDEs.