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Ask HN: What's your favorite IDE?
OK, I might get flamed for this. I would like to get an idea of how many people are using what IDE.
Please, write the name of the IDE first, and on a separate line. Then you can add your comments.
If you see your IDE in the list already, just upvote it. That way we can get some stats going.
Thanks
- honza 16y agovim
- crazydiamond 16y agoVim. Please see recently posted link: Coming Home to Vim. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/ And also: http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/bash-vim-setup/ http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/bash-vim-setup/
- honza 16y agoOh yes, I have read Steve's post about a hundred times.
- bm98 16y agoEmacs
- zoowar 16y agonone I am way more productive from the command line.
- Groxx 16y agoI hate them all. And I cringe every time people mention Visual Studio as "the best". I intend to make my own at some point, because I have yet to find a single one that meets even 1/2 of my primary desirables. Eclipse comes close, if you count plugins and can find them, but it's the epitome of bloat. All except an old, free version of TacoEdit, which has since gone paid. The free one is bad, has inaccurate highlighting, no autocomplete, really squat for JS code, but it's fast and lightweight, and runs code as you type it. Utterly fantastic for rapid prototyping. I boggle when I realize I have yet to see any other web-oriented IDE do this, and don't bother pointing out Komodo; its live updating is cool, but buggy, and you can't break the preview window out. To step away from IDEs a bit, TextMate is a phenomenal editor, and I end up using it more than any IDE when I'm not doing .NET coding / in Windows.
- Tycho 16y agoGood shout on TacoEdit, glad I discovered this.
- spooneybarger 16y agothe only IDE i use is when I'm working in a smalltalk environment. That is an IDE. Everything else I've used that gets called an IDE has been a pale comparison. When not using smalltalk I bounce around between vim, emacs and textmate depending on the task.
- calebmpeterson 16y agoEclipse when writing Java - you can kill an ox in 6 seconds with the refactoring tools ... unfortunately coding anything in Java is like killing an ox - there's a huge carcass and a funny smell when you're done notepad++ for everything else (HTML css JavaScript erlang) - fast - light weight - tabs - syntax highlighting
- mindcrime 16y ago+1 for Eclipse. Then again, I use Eclipse for nearly everything, just because it's what I'm familiar and comfortable with. So even if I'm coding Groovy or Scala or Python or Javascript or Perl, more of than not I'm using Eclipse.
- honza 16y agoI agree with the fact that Eclipse is excellent for Java, and unusable for anything else.
- iwwr 16y agoNetbeans has grown quite nicely in the last few years.
- ShardPhoenix 16y agoIntellij IDEA. More powerful and reliable than Eclipse, but not free (and also a bit uglier).
- tzm 16y agoTextmate
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- bradhe 16y agoVisual Studio + R# With one caveat: You better have a beefy computer!!
- kennethh 16y agoVisual Studio with Resharper. A bit slow but really makes C# coding a breeze. NetBeans when coding Java, a great IDE.
- gtcode 16y agoI use Komodo Edit as an IDE, and Notepad++ for miscellaneous edits. It's nice to have Notepad++ as a second editor on a second monitor for comps and the like. Netbeans and Eclipse are nice, but a bit kludgey for my taste. I do use Qt Creator for the random C++ project. No IDE is perfect -- if it were feasible, I would love to take bits from each of the above programs and mash them up into one master IDE.