IDE Test in German Linux Intern magazine

[Ralf Nolden]

Andrew Stevens wrote:
> Hmmm.... I tend to view "reviews" from light-weight magazines with serious
> suspicion.
> I can only assume they based their reviews on reading the doc rather than
> usage.
> I'm working on a real "live" C++ project under Linux, one where time wasted
> costs me serious money.  I've tried quite a few IDE's and almost-IDE's on
> this project and come to the following conclusions based on attempts to
> actually *use* them:
Same here. I don't actually loose money but wasting time is really hard
to accept if you are short with that anyway. A slow machine is wasting
time enough.
I agree that the results don't seem representative, especially because
you could use KDevelop for other projects as well-just the class browser
is limited to C++, but that doesn't prevent anyone to use the project
management and the editor for programming in Perl or whatever.

> arrival of the "Big boys" in the form of Inprise.   Furthermore, for
> development *tools* open-source / free-software is a real plus.  You have
> the confidence that the guys developing and maintaing the have the same
> interests as you.
That's why we started it...we didn't want to wait for anyone offering us
something for money which isn't worth it. And we have a useful project
that brings us joy to work on.

Ralf