Erlang IDE (was Re: Eclipse plugin advances)

[Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Consulting)]

It is worth adding that the effort being put into developing a good 
Erlang IDE will pay off with a much much wider user base, so I hope 
Eric, Marc and Vlad will keep up the good work.

Emacs is great, but not suited for everyone... Especially when they are 
busy learning a new language, the last thing they want to do is to learn 
a new editor. A straight forward IDE, lots of clicking and easily 
accessible documentation would certainly facitate the task of getting 
people to play around with Erlang much more than they are today. 
(Certainly a different group of people). Only when they are hooked on 
Erlang we can migrate them and get them hooked to Emacs.  :-)

Cheers,
Francesco
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http://www.erlang-consulting.com

Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
> From: "Marc van Woerkom" <marc.vanwoerkom@REDACTED>
> 
>>>I see there's not been any activity at the erlide.sf.net project for
>>>quite a while.
>>
>>It is not lack of interest!
> 
> 
> I didn't say it is ! :-)
> 
> 
>>a) Eclipse is huge
> 
> 
> True. In my experience, in such cases it is easier to start small and build on
> incrementally. The Eclipse model lets one do that very nicely. Should the
> architecture become messed up, it's also easy to start over.
> 
> 
>>b) economic pressure
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> 
> Sorry to hear that!
> 
> 
> I'll try to import the code I have to sourceforge.
> 
> best regards,
> Vlad
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>