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Why hasn't Google created their own IDE?

by GoofyGewber on 9/9/12, 2:36 AM with 6 comments

Apple has their own for iOS Development. Why wouldn't Google want to create their own for Android development?

  • by sprizzle on 9/9/12, 2:53 AM

    I think Google prefers to support existing open source projects that are successful. Internally, a lot of Java engineers at Google use Eclipse, which is a great IDE for Java development. No need to re-invent the wheel, instead it makes more sense for them to contribute to the success of Eclipse.

    FYI, Google also just donated $20K to the Eclipse foundation: http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/09/google-donates-20000-to-...

  • by trollforce on 9/9/12, 2:53 AM

    Because you can already develop Android apps quickly and efficiently with a number of already built and well supported IDEs? It makes no sense to spend money on something for a niche thing like Android development.

    Also http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

  • by brudgers on 9/9/12, 1:31 PM

    Steve Yegge's Grok project might become a potential candidate.

  • by chubs on 9/10/12, 10:55 AM

    Simple: Because googlers all hate IDE's and use vim.

  • by lilc on 9/9/12, 3:41 AM

    They do employ the author of Vim.