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Posts: 2060 from 2003/6/4
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asrael22 wrote:
What I find really depressing on any of the Amiga Systems is the lack of modern programming languages and development environments.
Really, for how much longer do we have to fiddle with Makefiles etc. and use C/C++. I accept this for driver development, but not for application development.
In FreePascal I found something acceptable. But the core language is still stone old and requires a ton of boilerplate code and it is not type safe, etc.
I don't see how it should be possible to attract new developers if this is the case, except for people who explicitly want to fiddle with the classic stuff.
Manfred
What do you think of Hollywood programming language?
As much as I like Hollywood it is probably not what Manfred actually meant. C#, Java or other mainstream modern languages with the according tools. Heck, on MorphOS it's not even a trivial thing to do a C++ MUI Hello world program for a noob as it's full of C heritage and setting up C++ with MUI is not quite comparable to e.g. starting a project in MS Visual Studio.
MorphOS would need better support and more tutorials for up to date and rather mainstream programming. Krashans tutorials were a good first step, but I guess this would need a bit more. I think the team is working on a better development environment - let's wait and see, they probably know about it.
In the meantime we can use Hollywood for this and that and while Hollywood is IMHO more powerful than many may think it is not the answer to all questions.
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