[Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 2019-11-24 om 12:23 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus:
>
> That argument cuts both ways. If you need an improvement in your IDE 
> you need to do it yourself.
> If the external tool implements it, you get it for free.
>
Oh dear. I thought you are now of the age that you no longer believe in 
such unicorn statements?

GCC, LLVM, ring a bell? In a previous message I already mentioned 
Netbeans, and we have had such discussions about Eclipse too (the big 
IDE to rule all IDEs 10 years ago).

Even if it works, having a good quality set of plugins, dealing with 
versioning and a project that probably moves much faster than yourself 
and doesn't care about you is quite hard. Making own ready to install 
distributions and keeping them up to date for extended periods is even 
worse.

> So that means it's a trade-off. Do you wish to spend your time fixing 
> broken
> external dependencies, or do you wish to spend it implementing new things
> yourself ?
>
> Asking the question is answering it ;-)
>
Not dependencies, rework the plugins over and over again, probably for 
each major version, and then finding out the bit you relied on is 
deprecated.

I really like a package I can just install and works, rather than 
constantly messing with plugins that are never really it.

I think you vastly overestimate getting good quality VSCode plugins that 
make it match Lazarus for basic functionality.