Re: What problems does an Official IDE or Toolkit solve?
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Oct 21, 2015
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Here are my concerns in no particular order:
- We have to make it easy to learn the language.
- better documentation
- code-assistant editor
- practical example code
- We have to make it easy to get help when you need it.
- larger community
- good FAQ section
- cookbook or patterns library
- We have to make it easy to distribute applications.
- precompiled libraries for all supported platforms
- documentation for common installers and package managers
- good advice for installing on Linux and OSX
- We have to make it easy to interface with other systems.
- add support for common file formats (JSON, XML, etc.)
- add support for common database systems (MySQL, Postcards, Sqlite)
- add support for common protocols (HTTP, FTP, IMAP, SMTP, etc.)
- add support for strong security (SSL, TLS, AES, etc.)
All of these things should be easy to get via the IDE or a package management solution (a la NuGet).
-Greg
