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I would claim that something 50% of the application developers writing code for Nokia (internal or contractors) could not handle strings correctly. It was in th
by usr1106 4y ago
I would claim that something 50% of the application developers writing code for Nokia (internal or contractors) could not handle strings correctly. It was in theory C++ code, but because compilers were not very good at the time when EPOC32 was developed and memory was pretty limited there were special implementations to work around all the limitations. Programming was not easy, productivity was low, and buggy application code was the norm.
I vaguely remember in the very late days there might have been some simplifications, but the train had gone already at that time.
- OnlyMortal 4y agoDidn’t Symbian Ed up using a version of CodeWarrior? Unfortunately, a Windows version of memory serves.
- teknolog 4y agoThey did for a long time, but they eventually switched to an Eclipse based system. I believe there was a Nokia team in Dallas that built that.
- usr1106 4y agoFirst it was Visual Studio, second CodeWarrior and then obviously Eclipse (I probably never used the latter, jumped ship a couple of years before the infamous burning platform.) So every 3-5 years they changed the development environment. Can probably also seen as a sign that Symbian development was tedious and not much fun.
- zelos 4y agoThat was Carbide IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide.c%2B%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide.c%2B%2B You could always tell who was using it in the office because their laptop fans would be at full blast.
- pjmlp 4y agoThere were, alongside the Qt efforts they ported POSIX into Symbian, PIPS.