<quote>500000000gb of of crap</quote>
A nice open attitude to developing on Linux I see... :-)
FLTK (the GUI toolkit used by the IDE) is not over-burdened by features, but it does a job - just.
However, I believe it was used because it was light (in a non 500000000gb sense) and the complete source could be deployed with Max.
For a more standard "Linuxy" feel, there are of course the GTK and KDE (aka Qt) GUI toolkits.
The GTK module for Max turns the IDE into something that works just as well as the Windows and Mac IDEs.
But yeah, you'd need to download 500000000gb of "developer" libraries to be able to *build* with it.
A nice open attitude to developing on Linux I see... :-)
FLTK (the GUI toolkit used by the IDE) is not over-burdened by features, but it does a job - just.
However, I believe it was used because it was light (in a non 500000000gb sense) and the complete source could be deployed with Max.
For a more standard "Linuxy" feel, there are of course the GTK and KDE (aka Qt) GUI toolkits.
The GTK module for Max turns the IDE into something that works just as well as the Windows and Mac IDEs.
But yeah, you'd need to download 500000000gb of "developer" libraries to be able to *build* with it.