Re: Frustrated again!
- Posted by irv May 22, 2015
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My point (wish) is this - Eu should be a modern language, with an integrated IDE, and an integrated tool kit bundled with the download and installation, and even a gui designer, and while I hate to say this, the emphasis should be on windows. Most people using Linux will have some computing savvy, and will relish the challenge of getting stuff working. Its all very well having multiple toolkits available, but it fragments the language, and whenever there's an update, there's a risk of breaking something which may not be noticed for a while if we are all off using our own preferred toolkit.
Perhaps the question should be: will people without computing savvy have any real interest in programming?
You may recall years ago someone posted a request on the RDS forum: "What do I type to make a game?"
The correct answer to that question would probably be: "a college application". There's a limit to how easy programming can get.
And as you can see from reading the posts here, no matter which toolkit is chosen to be the 'official' one, there will be people who are dissatisfied that it won't do -x- as well as -y- can do it. Or it won't run on DOS, or toasters, or ...
I say give people a choice. If they know what they are doing, they'll find what works best for them. If they don't, well, nothing you can supply is going to help much.
