KDevelop4 Beta 3 Released

mikesd81 writes "KDE announced on May 30th the third public beta of KDevelop4. Some new features include a new code-writing assistant, a new documentation plugin showing you the API docs for Qt and KDE APIs, a reworked Mercurial plugin, and a rewrite of the classbrowser plugin. Two plugins from the KDevelop source, QMake support and Qt Designer integration, were let go and moved to the KDE Playground area."

Comments

code writing assistant

[Anonymous Coward]

I already have a code assistant, he's called Intern 1.0, he does all the shit work I don't want to do, and when I don't know how to do something, he figures it out, lays out the algorithm for me, and then I take the credit.

Since he doesn't have a family or girlfriend, he also works about twice the number of hours I do.

I don't see how KDevelop can improve on that.

Re:Fantastic

[HatofPig]

Highly recommend that everyone scroll through tons of pretty screenshots and feature lists on this developers blog which will give you a way better idea of how awesome KDevelop is going to be than the summary links will.

Re:Typical FOSS

[ultrabot]

Other than that... Nothing can match Visual Studio. Period.

It's not necessary to match Visual Studio. It's important to be good enough. Many programmers are still relying on non-IDEs, so VS level operation is far from necessary.

I don't recall having an open source linux-compatible version of Visual Studio.

Re:Watcom C++

[Rob Riggs]

Yes, when Intel and MSFT make compilers that target UltraSPARC, Itanic, and POWER (all, not some) then I'll have a look-see again.

Open Watcom enjoys virtually no support. It is not going anywhere. It's another sucky piece of code that was no longer competitive in the marketplace. It needs developers like a fish needs a bicycle. No one in their right mind would waste time adding support for this compiler to KDevelop.

You know, the only people that I know that seriously dislike GCC are the commercial compiler venders. It's not perfect, but it has a major advantage that no other compiler has -- it frees the developer from worrying about vendor specific compiler issues when writing cross-platform code. One less thing to worry about.