Re: [ide-dev] [ui-best-practices-working-group] Blog Comments

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a smiley. For us veteran IDE guys, we weren’t very happy when
RCP came about and saw how it took attention away from making the Eclipse
Platform a great IDE platform. It’s ancient history now, but it’s always
good to have a perspective on the history to help understand why certain
people think the way they do, e.g. why some people feel there’s a barrier
to putting IDE functionality in the Platform.

Anyway, never mind, carry on. :)
D

On 2016-09-19, 11:14 AM, "ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Lars
Vogel" <ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> In fact, people point at e4 being the end. I can make a plausible
>>argument
>> that RCP was really the end ;).
>
>Not sure how to parse this comment. The e4 API effort is one of the
>reasons why RCP is still a vital and frequently selected solution for
>many new customers. 3.x RCP is heavily outdated and I have not met in
>the last 5 years a customer which started a new project with 3.X API
>but have supported lots of new 4.x API implementations.
>
>Best regards, Lars
>
>> Doug.
>>
>>>
>>>Best regards, Lars
>>>
>>>On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Doug Schaefer
>>><dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote:
>>>> Hey gang,
>>>>
>>>> In case you missed it on the Planet, I blogged about the discussions
>>>>we¹ve
>>>> been having. Comments are starting to come in from Eclipse users.
>>>>It¹s a
>>>> great place to connect with them.
>>>>
>>>> https://cdtdoug.ca/2016/09/17/pushing-the-eclipse-ide-forward/
>>>>
>>>> The one from @jillesvangurp is interesting. He isn¹t noticing much the
>>>> differences between releases despite all the great effort of the
>>>>Platform UI
>>>> team. I think it highlights something I think we all need to realize.
>>>>At
>>>> this point, the issues users are facing have much more to do with the
>>>> language plug-ins than they do with the Platform. Java content assist
>>>>comes
>>>> from JDT, Android tooling comes from Andmore, C++ tooling comes from
>>>>CDT,
>>>> etc. My sense is that these projects need a lot more love if we really
>>>>want
>>>> to make a difference for users.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
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