I downloaded RC1 today, and what a sigh of relief that was. The last couple of EAP downloads have been real stinkers. Build 1108 was so bad I started to worry if everyone at JetBrains had lost their brains. Usually, IDEA has terrific user interfaces for building source path and classpath... but from the start, the 4.0 pathing strategy just seemed like a losing proposition. A glimmer of hope showed up in build 977 where JetBrains really started to change the way you specified paths. It has come a long way since then and all I can say now is: There is hope.
There was a definate progression over the last month to make things a little more main stream. Seperated configuration dialogs for project and the tool itself are gone. That started almost a month ago. They added the tab grouping so long ago, I can't remember which build it was added. Generics support has been there for a while as well as an enhanced plugin manager. And lets not forget the UI builder. The changes that have been made are subtle, but significant. Version 4 almost feels like home again, and that says alot.
Posted by carl at January 25, 2004 02:43 AM
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