Wants to force you to wrestle with the 600 pound monster of Eclipse.
Not free if you company has ten people or more.
That's a reasonable complaint.
> Wants to force you to wrestle with the 600 pound monster of Eclipse.
The Android SDK is based on Eclipse. If you want to complain about that, talk to Google. Complaining to ARM is just silly.
> Not free if you company has ten people or more.
Yes, it is a freemium model. What's wrong with that?
I use it with the far more pleasurable command line tools and ultra-productive text editor Vim.
I don't understand why ARM charges thousands of dollars per seat for their compiler. gcc generates crappy ARM code. Doesn't ARM want all developers to be able to build fast ARM applications? Why doesn't ARM just contribute their compiler expertise to improving gcc rather than developing a complete toolchain?
No. Arm wants to make money, ideally off of the ARM architecture and related stuff. If they can make more money by selling their compiler, they'll do it.
Maybe the system profiler is worthwhile? Anyone know?
I think it's fair to say they expect most people to be writing C/C++, not Assembly.
