I was going to post a question in the “Module Design” forums regarding best Java IDE to use to develop some custom code classes for a VASSAL 3.2 module and ask for some general tips on getting going (I have a fair amount of C#.NET on Visual Studio IDE experience, but no Java experience whatsoever).
But…
I was scanning some of the VASSAL 4.0 discussion and it appears Java will become deprecated in favor of C++ (have I got that correct?). If so, when is VASSAL 4.0 targetted for release; is it near term like this year, or far term in several years? Should I mush onward and go through the effort of learning Java/Java IDE and write my custom code for VASSAL 3.2 or should I jump on board VASSAL 4.0 and write in C++ (if that’s even possible yet).
On the one hand, I want to minimize being overwhelmed by learning curves for obsolete development paths; but on the other hand, I don’t want to wait too long to develop the code.
I was going to post a question in the “Module Design” forums regarding
best Java IDE to use to develop some custom code classes for a VASSAL
3.2 module and ask for some general tips on getting going (I have a fair
amount of C#.NET on Visual Studio IDE experience, but no Java experience
whatsoever).
But…
I was scanning some of the VASSAL 4.0 discussion and it appears Java
will become deprecated in favor of C++ (have I got that correct?). If
so, when is VASSAL 4.0 targetted for release; is it near term like this
year, or far term in several years? Should I mush onward and go through
the effort of learning Java/Java IDE and write my custom code for VASSAL
3.2 or should I jump on board VASSAL 4.0 and write in C++ (if that’s
even possible yet).
I’m expecting that we’ll release V4 demos throughout 2013, but I’m not
willing to commit to when we’ll reach feature parity with V3.2.
Any custom code you’d be writing for V4 would be in Python, not C++, as
only the core will be in C++. Module scripting wil be in Python. The API
you’d need to code against doesn’t exist yet, but will exist sometime in
2013.
So… I know I’m asking you to speculate and that’s always a slippery slope, but…
In your opinion, the better path is to learn Java and Java IDE to create custom extensions, then down the road convert them to python, because v4 release is so far out? (I know… I know… as I’m typing the question I’m realizing only I can really answer that.)
So… I know I’m asking you to speculate and that’s always a slippery
slope, but…
In your opinion, the better path is to learn Java and Java IDE to create
custom extensions, then down the road convert them to python, because v4
release is so far out? (I know… I know… as I’m typing the question
I’m realizing only I can really answer that.)
Are you saying that you don’t know Java now?
Can you describe what it is that you want your extensions to do?
That’s a good Java IDE? Eclipse?
I would say there is no good Java IDE, as a special case of there being
no good IDE for anything. I code in vim and am quite happy doing that.
I realize that this is not what everyone wants, though. Some other people
use Eclipse.