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I've been in the same boat, using Visual Studio for a long time. I agree that VS is an enormous, and I don't use it to its full advantage. The original author
by bmj 16y ago
I've been in the same boat, using Visual Studio for a long time. I agree that VS is an enormous, and I don't use it to its full advantage. The original author's point was, however, that getting Clojure running under emacs is less than simple for a new developer. Contrast that Visual Studio. I install VS2010 with the C# extensions, but then I want to do some F# development. I go to the MS site, download the extension (or use the MSDN disc I have stashed in my desk), install it, and away I go.
- rbanffy 16y agoHis point appears to be VS is easier to use for people familiar to VS. If you have two developers equally unfamiliar to their respective development environments, VS and, say, ClojureBox (a Clojure+Emacs combo), their learning curves won't be that different. Most probably, they will start with a book or something like that to learn the basics.
- KC8ZKF 16y agoBut, you wouldn't have to download anything to develop F# with emacs, because caml-mode is already there. Also, as much as Slime and and whatnot add to Clojure development, you don't need them. The lisp modes and inferior-lisp repl that ship with emacs work pretty darn well.
- bmj 16y agoYou wouldn't have to download anything? You mean emacs comes stock with a F# compiler? My point is that with a single download (and no real installation besides a single click), you can get a new environment up and running in Visual Studio. I'm not saying VS is the world's greatest IDE (I use it strictly for .NET work, and use gVIM for everything else--and use, I've used emacs, too). I'm merely talking about it in the context of the ease of integrating new languages/frameworks.