[Info-vax] Development Tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 11:22 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-15 09:45:26 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>> ...Many people do...✂️...namely people who write their own 
>> applications.  They need an OS and  a compiler, that's it...
> 
> That's true, as far as it goes.  Developers can work with an operating 
> system and just a compiler.  Though developers are a fickle lot.
> 
> With the expectations of frameworks and tool chains, and around one or 
> more IDEs and increasingly on the scale of Xcode or JetBrains or VS 
> capabilities, and with expectations around app instrumentation and build 
> tools and deployment tools, and around security-related frameworks and 
> encryption, and a variety of other details well beyond the compilers, 
> these requirements developers increasing have can make OpenVMS a 
> difficult sale.

Just for the record then XCode and VS are products while JetBrains
is a company.

Apple - XCode
MS - VS
JetBrain - IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PhpStorm etc.

And open source Eclipse is pretty big as well for many
languages including Java, C++, Fortran, Kotlin, Scala and Rust.

Arne