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Improved Developer Experience
SAP has majored on this in SP7 though I think there is more wood
to cut for
SP8. Thankfully, the regi configuration is
now gone, though regi appears still be there in the background
for certain tasks.
This should pave the way to the MacOS X version of HANA Studio
(yay!). I tested checking out some projects and
it happens 5-10x faster than before,
which is very nice.The 3 views: Project Explorer, Repositories
and Systems View all still exist,
which is a shame, but hopefully we'll see
those consolidated in SP8. Either way, from a developer
perspective, this all
feels much better.
The web-based IDE has been improved some although it still falls
short of
parity with SAP HANA Studio. Some
serious work needs to happen here to make HANA a cloud
development
platform and crucial HANA Models are stillonly visible in
XML.
Core Data Services gets some new functionality for the
definition of
relationships and views, but CDS is still very
young. I suspect that the unification of the developer
experience between the 3
different views, CDS, the HANA Analytic
and Calc Views will be a core effort for SP8. Getting this right
is the absolute
key to an amazing developer experience
for Native HANA.HANA Studio has been nicely smoothed around the
edges and I'd be very happy
to develop large apps with large
number of developers working concurrently. It feels extremely
solid and it is
much better integrated than other
development environments. It feels like developer experience has
been put to
the top of the agenda. Deleting stuff is
easy, for example!Most of the effort in XS seems to have gone to
make the experience more
unified, with some additional features like
