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Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit
shelleymonster writes "Infoworld points out that, after two years of coding, Borland has released its latest C++ development toolkit. Borland C++BuilderX is a multiplatform IDE for Windows, Linux, and Solaris that provides a brand-new visual development environment. Press release here." According to the Infoworld piece, "While newer languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005."
New IDE but no screenshots? :-(
Nice thing is, Borland tends to release 'personal' editions for at-home use that require no money (though the features are slimmed down).
Being a big fan of the JBuilder series, I'll be sure to d/l the personal edition for C++ (in a day or two when the servers aren't so clogged).
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Someone who is paid for the purposes of developing an application.
"Do you count sysadmins write shells scripts?"
No, they are paid to maintain systems, not develop applications. Very little of what they write will ever see the light of day.
"Can you really lump in all C and C++ developers together (is someone using Visual C++.NET (i.e. using all the .NET libraries and pretty much ignoring the "standard" C++ libraries) the same as someone using gnu C++ on Solaris?"
I don't think the number of people using C++ with managed extensions is statistically significant.
What they're trying to say is that the number of developers producing native code applications using C and C++ outnumbers those using some sort of runtime environment in conjunction with a language like C# or Java...
I am also sick of the use of the word "extreme." I do not want the Extreme Value Combo, I do not want to watch Extreme Television, I do not want to be a part of Extreme Programming. It's even worse when they use Xtreme. It was sorta cool during the (first) X-Games. After that, it just got lame.
It's even got to the point where X as a substitute for 10 is unacceptable, simply because it looks dumb. Do not say "Version X," please say "Version 10."
Everyone: do the world a favor and pull a "Clinton-exit-manuever" on the marketers in your office: sneak in after they leave and pry the "X" keys off of their keyboards. Thank you.
Sometimes a thank you is payment.
Open source developers wouldn't do it if they didn't get anything from it.
Qt, GTK, tcl/tk, Fox, FLTK, all run on Windows, and are being used to develop Windows applications. For some reason "joe" has not stopped using Windows because of this.
For over five years now, Borland has divided its development products into three classes: personal, professional, and enterprise. It used to be that all three had similar licenses, but each level had more features than the previous version. All were suitable for professional development. The personal edition was ~$100, the professional ~$500, and enterprise ~$2500.
Then, a few years ago, Borland changed this scheme. The professional version jumped up to ~$1000, and the enterprise beyond that. The catch is that at the same time they changed the license of the personal version so it cannot be used commercially or to develop commercial products--even low cost products. So now you have the $100 product that's essentially crippled, and to go to the next level, just to remove that one clause from the license, you have to spend $900. That's completely ridiculous.
Please Borland, give it up. Why should I have to pay $1000 when there are other products at half the price? The answer is "I won't." I'll buy your competitor's products.
Most software will never see the light of day as its written for in house use. The programmers who write such software are every bit a developer as someone working on a comercial product or an Open Source project.
'nuff said.
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.