On 03/22/2017 06:08 PM, Carsten Reckord
wrote:
From reading that article
This article is the most biased and maybe one of the less
influential ones (took a year to spot it...) we've found and shared
there in the last years, and none of the other articles we've seen
do mention that the lack of syntax highlighting is a reason why tool
X is better than Eclipse IDE. On the contrary, Eclipse IDE is often
praised (and criticized) for the advanced features such as
completion, navigation, debug and so on. It seems like those rich
features are really what users are expecting to be great in an IDE,
and they care more about them than having IDE able to display colors
just like vim or notepad can already do.
I don't say highlighting all files is useless, I'm just unsure it's
high priority and unsure it would bring much value to users without
richer features for a language in an IDE. Hence why my vision on
TM4E is to make more like a framework for efficient language support
more than a end-user feature. But both can be compatible, it just
takes contributions to target those 2 stories well ;)
Seems like we're losing ground not to more sophisticated IDEs, but to much simpler editors.
Do you have facts or metrics to help with that?
On the Eclipse side, do we have download stats trends? It seems to
me that the amount of installations from Marketplace is relatively
stable (looking at
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme#group-metrics-tab
), so this may be an indicator that the number of users is too.
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