Borland speeds Kylix C++ for Linux development (Register) [LWN.net]

This Register article examines Borland Software Corp's Kylix RAD environment for C++, version 3.0. "Kylix 3.0 brings RAD to an estimated three million C++ developers on Linux. Borland is playing in a highly fragmented Linux market, which provides programmers with an array of open source command-line tools that largely lack integrated features."

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Borland speeds Kylix C++ for Linux development (Register)

Posted Jul 24, 2002 16:48 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Borland must have an unusual definition of `highly fragmented'.

One C/C++ compiler (GCC, albeit in many versions; the Intel compilers are both too nonportable and too fringe to consider).
One overwhelmingly popular build system (autoconf, configure/make).
One debugger, GDB (with lots of things built on top of it, like DDD).

The only `fragmentation' I can see (discounting C++ ABIs, which Borland will hardly be helping by adding another one) is `lots of IDEs'. I can't see how this `fragmentation' could possibly be harmful: it's not as though code written on one can't be edited on another! (The stated definition of `fragmentation' is obvious nonsense: if you don't like having several windows open, you can use one of the existing IDEs.)

Does Borland simply not *know* about those IDEs? If so, this doesn't speak highly of their Linux/Unix knowledge at all (since it implies that not only are they unaware of the newer IDEs but they're even unaware of Emacs!)