White Paper: Real Programmers Do Use IDEs

While a revolution has taken place in the roles and intelligence of embedded systems, in addition to a substantial evolution in programming language use and techniques, the tools actually employed by embedded developers have not changed in several decades. Most embedded developers still eschew IDEs in favor of command line interfaces (CLIs), preferring to stick with the “devil they know”.

By William Weinberg
March 26th, 2009
White Paper: Real Programmers Do Use IDEs

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6This white paper examines the evolution of embedded cross development, and why IDEs have remained “tomorrow’s technology” for too long. It also highlights recent trends in tool design and integration of the development process, especially as those trends apply to different types of embedded development and to various phases of the development process. If you and your team are not using an IDE today, this white paper strives to convince you to take another look at the benefits of this powerful programming paradigm. If you and your colleagues today employ an IDE, this white paper provides specific examples how MontaVista DevRocket 5 is bringing these benefits to embedded Linux developers.

Try It – You’ll Like It
Thanks to the openness and power of the Eclipse framework, developers of all types on all development platforms are test-driving IDEs and coming away impressed. Increasingly, real programmers do use IDEs – and so should you.

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