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[Faldegast <faldegast@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Before this degrades to a developer litigation - regarding the development:
> 1. I think there are really enough options for developing under Linux.

I think the problem is that there are to many options.

> 2. I don't see Visual Studio being sooo good. I used Visual Studio for
> more than 10 years and I felt way better after I switched to NetBeans
> and Java development.

NetBeans is very good for Java developmen, and Java have most of the
things i am talking about. The problem is native Linux development.
While NetBeans are really good for making Java apps, there are no equal
tool to make C/C++ apps. Lazarus is nice Delphi clone for Pascal
programming, but it lacks a good database library. Java has its JDBC
which is excellent.

> 3. It would be good if even every full idiot could use the
> libraries/APIs and the IDE. That would include a lot of crap being
> developed by a lot of people who do not really know about development,
> but for a better developer it would be either easy and the learning
> curve less steep which is important also for the new young developers
> entering the computer world.

Also do not forget that good developers usually was "idiots" when they
started. Many good developers started out by making crappy apps in
Visual Basic. Without VB they may not have started coding in the first
place.

> 4. A developer who has many years of experience with Windows and none
> with Linux surely has more difficulties developing for Linux - but
> more likely because of the lack of knowledge about the underlying OS.
> I don't think that the development/developers do hinder from current
> point of view to do the switch to Linux/Ubuntu - and the developers on
> the Linux side are very good IMHO.

There are many good developers for Linux and its true that they don't always need a nice RAD IDE environment. However my point is that without new amateur developers the pool of good developers will not grow.
 		 	   		  
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