![]() Reviewing a product that covers the scope of an IDE, compiler, debugger, emulator, resource tools and accompanying manuals is an interesting challenge. Their all new, all singing, all dancing IDE was the awaited update to their current product line. In the Autumn of 2002 Metrowerks, makers of the CodeWarrior series of development tools, announced version 9.0, capable of supporting the new ARM hosted Palm OS 5 and still retaining backwards compatibility with previous Palm OS versions. All the commercial solutions I am working with leave so much to be desired and I finally cobbled together a workable environment, piecemeal, using OSS tools and two commercial integrated development environments (IDE), task switching back and forth between them. I've been struggling with Palm Pilot development the same way I was struggling with the Acorn Atom in 1981, how to be an effective and empowered developer without writing all my own support tools. Many developers are still forced to use primitive tools that have not really evolved in 25 years. Palm Pilot, no different to any other non-host development platform, has until the very recent past been poorly catered when it comes to development tools. It is often fraught with coercing primitive tools to do your bidding and constant frustration at the pressures of non-programmers observing the target platform as a "simple system" not as complex as Microsoft Windows or UNIX. ![]() ![]() Non-native platform or embedded systems development is never a pleasant task.
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