Any RAD future with Sun Studio?
There's no doubt that Sun Studio 12 represents a great leap forward from its predecessor. Moreover, the integration of an editor, build manager and debugger arguably beats ad-hoc solutions such as ``emacs'' and ``vi''. And there's no question that the individual command-line tools (``cc'', ``dbx'' and the rest) are best of breed.
However, turning to the IDE, what's really lacking is an out-of-the-box rapid application development environment, similar to what Visual Studio has had for C++ and Delphi for Object Pascal. Are there any plans by Sun (perhaps in Sun Studio 13) to build upon the current foundation to offer a component-driven approach for crafting GUI applications?
I realize the problems toward this end may be insurmountable because there's not a common foundation (Motif, QT, GTK and others) for graphics in Unix. So, am I correct in presuming that Sun would rather have us do all UIs in Java and reserve C and C++ strictly for lower-level backend apps?
