Have you ever looked at Smalltalk? We've had that kind
of behavior in Smalltalk for decades - without any of
the restrictions you see in Java. take a look; I think
you'll be leasantly surprised
He isn't talking about the language, he's talking about
the IDE. IIRC, smalltalk is loosly typed and perhaps he
wants a strong typed language, perhaps he likes C# and
VB.NET. IntelliJ is indeed one of the most beautiful
tools I've ever seen and clearly shows that VS.NET is
just lightyears behind. Whidbey will solve a lot, but
not all. And that's disturbing.
There are several Smalltalkers in IDEA team. Of course
Smalltalk IDE's is one of the inspiration sources for
them.
Btw, IDEA doesn't have my fav 'Move to component'
refactoring.
Frans, Smalltalk is strongly typed language. Don't
confuse strong with static typing.
Frans,
James IS talking about the Smalltalk IDE. Edit and
continue is not a feature of the Smalltalk language, but
of the IDE, which happens to be written in Smalltalk.
Java does have some nice IDEs. I use Eclipse and it's
great, for a Java IDE. It almost makes Java worth using.
Eclipse barely begins to do some of the things I can do
in Smalltalk, but it's gigantic and slow. Smalltalk does
everything Eclipse+Java does and more, but you can run
Smalltalk on an old 286 with a couple of megabytes of
RAM and it feels snappy. Way back in 1990 I used to keep
a copy of Smalltalk on a floppy disk and carry it around
with me in my pocket.
"make like internet explorer to blow away this
new "Netscape"."
you mean by giving VS.NET away for free and bundling it
into Windows? ;-)
As much as I would love VS.NET to incorporate features
from IDEA btw, the last thing I want is for JetBrains to
be "blown away". We need companies
other than Microsoft to provide innovative products and
a fresh perspective. Competition is good - it keeps
companies on their toes and forces them to keep up.
Btw - JetBrains is working on a VS.NET plugin to bring
many of the IDEA features to the C# masses. Considering
IDEA itself started off as a JBuilder plugin, this might
just evolve into a full-fledged C# IDE at some point...