In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, oliverb wrote:

Modularity is not a bad idea. Break up future development into several components, the IDE, Assmebler, Basic Compiler, and Debugger. Also, CCS has Linux versions of all their products so a Linux (or MAC OS X) version may not be that difficult to create at least for C. If the assembler is written in C, porting it over may not be a terribly big job which brings us to the SX Basic compiler. If it is written in Delphi like the windows version of the PBASIC tokenizer it can be ported to Linux and FreeBSD either through Kylix or Lazuras (the open source delphi for Linux and BSD) Lazuras code will run on the MAC with OS X. That would leave only the debugger interface to port. Eclipse is nice for new development but porting older products really isn't practical. Regardless of which approach would be taken, it's doubtful if a MAC or Linux version would be working in the near future. But for the distant future there certainly is hope. I think as time goes on Parallax will do what is right both for the customers and the market. Let's remember guys, that for a small company they have moved swiftly and have teir hands full with new parts and languages right now. They have done a banner job when you consider their size.

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