Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 04:33:59 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> > If it falls short compared with other IDEs, I think this would be a
> > great area for improvement of Emacs.
> 
> The number one requirement by IDE users today is perfect code completion
> and powerful refactoring support for the language they develop in
> (Java, C++, etc.).
> 
> Any IDE which wants to compete with the popular IDEs must have these,
> because users find these features much more helpful in development,
> than keyboard macro support and such.
> 
> So if Emacs wants to compete with these tools then it has to have seamless,
> context aware code completion and refactoring support, and GNU tools
> has to provide Emacs the necessary information to implement these
> features.

I agree.  But to have that, the only way is to have motivated
volunteers step forward and work on these features.  Otherwise we will
never have them.

Right now, no one is working on that, though everyone is talking.  the
same as with weather.