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Sun spikes Java IDEs

Tom Jobbins

"No word on Sun Studio for C.." 

Posted Monday 17th December 2007 11:44 GMT

Other sources quote Sun Studio as staying for sure, which makes sense as it is vital for the OpenSolaris project.

Scott

Another year, another confusing name for C compiler 

Posted Monday 17th December 2007 18:23 GMT

What will it be called in '08?

No, really sir, it's the same "cc", just a completely different name.

Forte

Sun ONE studio

Java studio creator

ASunCompilerGuy

Confusing between IDE and Compilers 

Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 22:50 GMT

Sun Studio Compilers (C, C++ and Fortran) are well and fine and reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.

In fact, adoption of these Compilers has improved considerably by some metrics.

I think this particular discussion is about IDEs. Sun Studio IDE is based on Netbeans CDP (aka, C/C++ Developers Pack). This pack is rolled into the "base platform" which makes it more language-neutral (ie. not just Java. Netbeans also supports JRuby/Ruby on Rails and dynamic scripting, etc).

Dont mix up compilers with this IDE story.

ASunCompilerGuy

PS. Its not the story that creates this confusion; just the comments. Hence the clarification