My point: I feel that a skilled text console based programmer would benefit enormously from the performance boosts that a graphical IDE would offer.
I happen to be a developer for the Eclipse platform, and intend to make Eclipse platform development my career. The next time I visit Mumbai and my visit co-incides with a LUG meet, I'd been happy to show case the Eclipse IDE. I understand that there was some demo recently, but don't know more.
Don't want to start a war here... but just for the point, what Eclipse does with 200 MB emacs does with 20.
One of my good friends at IBM did try introducing me to Eclipse... that was version 1.0... and I was like rolling on the floor laughing. Newer versions "have" shown promise, but it fundamentally still remains bloatware.
Wonder if anyone has given talks on emacs. On how emacs can be used to: - Edit files - Run shell commands - Read mail - Extended itself via LISP code - Play tetris (when the boss ain't looking)
They don't call emacs the one true program for nothing :).
Regards,
ah