Tag: Boo

I read a post by Jonathan Edwards recently called Delusions of Programming. Where he makes a few interesting points about the importance of IDE support. As someone who is a big fan of Boo I can definitely attest to the truth of his words. In my own words I have come to a similar lesson: good tooling can make even a bad language powerful and vice versa. As much as I love Boo and as powerful as it is, I’m still far more productive in C#. If Boo had the same quality of IDE tooling, and error messages it would blow C# out of the water… but it doesn’t. The actual language itself is probably less than 50% of the whole story.