Dombo said:
Op 26-Mar-11 22:17, Nico Coesel schreef:
Unless your time is worth nothing the purchase price of a tool is only a
(small) part of its total cost.
Then show me a tool which doesn't require time to learn how to use it.
Eclipse being free doesn't mean it is bad. Eclipse is funded by huge
companies like Nokia, IBM, SAP, Oracle, etc, etc. Its most certainly
not a hobby project. Eclipse has been specifically designed to aid
software engineers developing complex pieces of software. There are
many different IDEs and the majority of them are not very productive
to work with.
For most compiler vendors the IDE is not part of their core business
so they invest as little as possible in developing their IDE. Note
that many have already moved to Eclipse or will do so in the near
future.
Semiconductor manufacturers like to show off with simple IDEs to win
customers for their microcontrollers. Don't get fooled by shimmering
beads and mirrors. At some point you will want to take software
development to a next level and you'll find the simple IDE to be
inadequate (=time wasted on learning how to use it). Or you'll move to
a different platform (=time wasted on learning how to use the specific
IDE).
The whole point of Eclipse is to learn once and use it for all
languages on all platforms. The same goes for GCC (and binutils). GCC
works the same for all targets. If you know how to use GCC for an
MSP430 you know for 99.9% how to compile for LPC2000.