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> But I'd like to tell everyone who may actually be reading this list that
> Electric is alive, and in active development. In fact, we have spent the
> last 8 months recoding the entire system in Java. The new system is
> already being tested by users and should be ready for release in the
> summer. It is already an improvement over the C version.
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> -Steven Rubin
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This is very interesting. Where can I get more info on it? Does it require a Sun JDK/JRE?
Any info on development environment such as netbeans vs eclipse vs emacs/vi?
Are all the "Add-ins" such as QUISC, ALS or the VHDL compiler converted to Java as well?
I expect the Java interface has been preserved or enhanced. What about lisp or tcl?
I think the move to Java could be a very good thing. It could make extending electric for custom applications much easier.