Experience with SwiftX for MSP430 family

I'm debating if I should purchase a copy of SwiftX for the MSP430 family
for non-commercial hobby use.

It looks to me as a very well done development environment, but there
are a couple of issues that are holding me back from making the purchase.

1. The cost, $450 is a bit steep for my hobby use, but I can overlook
that if I would use it in every project from now on, that would make the
cost easier to bear.
2. Lack of project management, how hard is it to deal with many
projects, somewhere in the range of ten to twenty projects without the
project manager?
3. Lack of optimization, this one is hard to deal with, many of my
projects are small in nature and use tiny CPU's that don't have a lot of
Flash so they can be cost efficient.

If you have experience with items 2 or 3 I would appreciate your
feedback, you can send me a private email if it makes you feel more
comfortable.

I would appreciate feedback on the package as a whole, how productive
are you, how easy is it to debug problems?

I recently purchased the demo version and I will be playing with it, but
due to size limits with the demo I would not be able to write anything
of any consequence.

This decision would be a no brainer is SwiftX followed the same model as
SwiftForth in that full functionality is available in both versions, the
difference being availability of the cross compiler source. Things are
not always like I wish, but since Forth Inc has been around quite a
while, it's obvious they know what they are doing and I'll have to deal
with reality as it is.

Your feedback is appreciated.

-- 
Cecil
KD5NWA
<www.qrpradio.com>
'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
with experience.'               -anon
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