[antlr-interest] Report of GUI's death greatly exaggerated

[Terence Parr]

 Oracle is now definitely committed to NB, per the JavaOne discussions of roadmap.   all development environment platforms are moving targets, but NetBeans seems to be better than eclipse and intellij in this respect. :)

Ter
On Oct 9, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Michael Bedward wrote:

> As a long-time NB user I really like the sound of ANTLRWorks becoming
> an NB Platform app. Just two things I'd be cautious about:
> 
> 1. Oracle's commitment and what this means for platform stability.
> Recent events, such as dropping support for the Python and Ruby
> plugins (euphemistically termed "giving them to the community") raise
> worries about Oracle's commitment to anything that isn't seen as
> commercially attractive in the very short term.
> 
> 2. The NB Platform itself is such a moving target, although perhaps
> this perception is more a comment on my neurons slowing with advancing
> age.
> 
> But in general, nice one !
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On 10 October 2011 12:34, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>> some snapshots of ANTLRWorks v2 in progress...
>> 
>> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/~admin/2011/10/09/Report+of+GUI%27s+death+greatly+exaggerated
>> 
>> ter
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