I've been here at EclipseCon for 48 hours and it's been great already. I've met a lot of people here, like I always do, and it's a good sign that vendors still see Eclipse as important, enough to spend the money in these tough times to send their technical experts.
EclipseCon is an important conference, especially for those who are looking to get started with Eclipse and to grow their expertise. There's probably not enough time to learn it all, but at least you know where to go look when you get home.
It's also important for projects to get the word out about the great work their doing and to grow their community. I was pretty disappointed about the number of submissions I had for the C/C++ category. But we're making due. And it's good to see the number of DSDP contributors here giving talks so we're still showing the world that Eclipse is more than just a Java IDE.
Other things to report:
- work on ObjectiveC is starting and the guys managed to get a prototype running based on CDT late last night.
- the Ada project is looking to reboot.
- e4 talks are the hottest ticket in town
- adding git continues to be controversial and we really need to get a bigger ground swell of contributors who care about making this happen
Anyway, beer time. More later.
Is the ObjectiveC work being done as part of CDT or some other project? Perhaps you could point me to where I can follow progress and get involved.
ReplyDeleteIt's starting out as a Google Code project. The intention is to bring it into the CDT once it is functional. We should be able to do that by next year, I hope.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Alex is watching and can provide the link?
I am, albeit a bit later. The Google code project is http://code.google.com/p/objectiveclipse/ and there's some stuff in there now, but not checked in from the discussion we had last night. I've found out a few more things and hope to have something together in SVN shortly for people to be able to work against, but I'm working against CDT 6.0 for the dependency so plan for that kind of timeframe.
ReplyDeleteOh, PS - the plan to get it going with Google Code is to start things and get the ball rolling; the goal is to fold back into CDT as/when appropriate.
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