[Ocaml-biz] IDEs

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Thu Sep 9 09:15:00 PDT 2004


Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> I believe most people are currently doing their OCaml development in GNU
> Emacs.  Between GNU Emacs, XEmacs, and Vim, I don't see any reasons to
> back the latter 2.  By 'back' I think I mean promote as a preferred
> toolchain  for mission critical application development.  Nothing wrong
> with individuals backing and using whatever they like.  But I think if
> we're talking about selling businesses on the unknowns of OCaml, and
> being honest about what currently has the best support, the answer is
> GNU Emacs by a huge margin.  Please correct and provide insight if you
> think this assessment is fundamentally mistaken.

Where do you see that people are using more GNU Emacs instead of XEmacs?

If you're going to support GNU Emacs, then I think you should also support 
XEmacs, as they're not that far apart from each other.

Regards,
Blair

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