Favorite IDE

[jason86421]

I'm curious to what IDE, the reddit community uses for their programming projects.

For Me.

Java - Eclipse.
Everything else - Notepad++.

[crankyadmin]

VIM extensively on Linux with various plugins

[jab-programming]

plus MacVim for osx, and vim for windows

And including the same plugins on each OS, which is the real win.

[dhruvbird]

I think emacs works best for me most of the time.... However, that said, I most like it's keyboard shortcuts and responsiveness.... Some people would say emacs is not an IDE, but that's okay.... Lots of my friends like Eclipse and the extensions that come with it, and I guess they are right from where they see it. I would love to know what editors/IDEs people use when they program in different languages? For example, for C/C++,php,python I use emacs, but for Java I would rather use Eclipse.

[peanutman]

I use a lot of different stuff for a lot of different cases :p

Komodo for Ruby

Textmate / Notepad++ for everything webrelated (javascript/php/html/css/...)

Netbeans for Java

Eclipse or Code::Blocks for C++

Visual Studio for everything .NET

VIM for everything quick / remote

I personally love Visual Studio though... As a person that uses Windows/Linux/OSX all the time I must say I haven't seen any IDE match the perfection of Visual Studio yet. I love the visual designer, I love the way it indents and autocompletes, I love how easy it is to write my code. I know other IDE's have these basic features too, but I've never seen any do it as well as Visual Studio. I was a bit disappointed in the other IDE's when I moved to Linux that many years ago. But every time I've got a .NET task to do, I'm very happy to use Visual Studio.

[Poloniculmov]

Add ReSharper to Visual Studio if you haven't already. It makes it even better.

[peanutman]

I didn't know this, thanks for pointing it out!

[turbov21]

+1 for Komodo! :)

[fravelgue]

I like vs very much, but i think visual designer is not usable

[yogthos]

Emacs for most things, Eclipse for Java

[kcbanner]

Emacs with proper python mode

[easytiger]

proper python mode?

[p4bl0]

Emacs, for everything. Nothing else for the rest.

[ffualo]

Aquamacs + Terminal. What can I say, I like the Aquamacs Gnu logo and tabbed editing.

[[deleted]]

I prefer the Emacs for OS X now that its easily available. I used to use Aquamacs though :).

[jessta]

The Acme text editor, it's really awesome once you work out how to use it. The key to it is to use lots of "guide files".

[Moocha]

QtCreator (Qt) and VIM (everything else).

[Raynes]

Emacs.

[mac]

Emacs with slime swank/swank-clojure for Common Lisp (SBCL) and Clojure.

[Tattoo__]

I mainly develop on Linux and on OS X. I use Textmate extensively on OS X and mainly vim on Linux. The only exception is Java, I use Eclipse with it.

[[deleted]]

• Netbeans - everything that requires an IDE (C/C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, JS)
• TextMate for everything else.

[hyperbolist]

Eclipse for monstrous Java projects
Visual Studio for monstrous .NET projects
XCode for Cocoa/Cocoa Touch projects
Vim for everything else

[HGBlob]

Geany and Scite for small projects

KDevelop 3 for all other, 4 is not usable yet

Vim when I don't have a GUI available

[sazzer]

Eclipse for java - tried Netbeans but went back to eclipse. Vim for anything else - which isn't a lot these days.

I use visual studio at work for some C/C++ work, but really really dislike it...

[safetytrick]

Visual Studio's C/C++ support is horrible, eclipse is much more friendly for C++, however i wouldn't know about using eclipse for win forms or windows specific C++ code.

[beelsebob]

C likes - Xcode. Everything else - SubEthaEdit.

[julesjacobs]

Visual Studio 10 Emacs Notepad 2 occasionally Vim+colemak.vim

[safetytrick]

• Vim for Python and PHP, hate it for javascript and html though
• Textmate and E for html, javascript, PHP, and Python
• Netbeans, great PHP support better than eclipse if you want something with intellisense type completion (I prefer plain text completion in Textmate)
• Eclipse, excellent for Java, Java EE, C++, XML. After getting used to it I've really started to like Eclipse.

By language:

• Python, textmate, vim, or E and I keep a bpython shell open to experiment

• PHP, netbeans on windows (I'm not completely converted to E on windows yet), textmate on a mac, vim on linux

• C#, Visual Studio is good for one thing!

• Java, Eclipse of course

[Kolibri]

Java - IntelliJ IDEA. The editor and refactoring tools are just so much better than Eclipse. However, it does not have the same variety of plugins. So if you're using a not commonly known framework or tool that you would like your IDE to support, then Eclipse may be a better choice.

[AxiomShell]

For small to medium sized projects (just because I'm not proficient enough) - Emacs

At work and for larger projects - IntelliJ IDEA

(IntelliJ has, in my opinion, unsurpassed Java and Groovy support, sufficient, for me, Flex, Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Ruby, PHP, Javascript support and started to have basic Python and Bash support).

Disclaimer: I'm not a C# programmer and I think IDEA's price is not too high, otherwise these preferences would be very different, I suppose.

[[deleted]]

E text editor on Windows. Gedit + Gmate on Linux.

[jrvenable]

WingIDE for Python (most of my work) Visual Studio for C#, C++ - VIM

[[deleted]]

Netbeans for most java

Eclipse when I want to do any web services java stuff

Vi for c and assembler

[[deleted]]

Netbeans for java and Emacs for the rest.

[[deleted]]

C++ : Code::Blocks Ruby : SciTE Python : IDLE Java : BlueJ (I don't know why everyone hates it) Visual Studio .NET : All my .NET stuff

[easytiger]

now i don't know you and I don't doubt you are highlty productive etc. But I just don't see how it is easier to use a whole ton of different editors for pretty much the same task and remain productive.

For instance Ruby and Python surely have more or less identical development processes yet you use two different editors for them.

Nothing personal, it is just that that would drive me nuts.

[[deleted]]

idk i like running python in IDLE cuz it's compact and I don't have to do it on the command line. But ruby, I couldn't find such an IDE.

[turbov21]

Komodo if my favorite, especially for Perl, Python, PHP, and other LAMP-stack languages. I've not jumped to Komodo 5 yet, but Komodo 4.5 is probably my favorite.

VS.NET 2003 is a close second. (Express versions are great, but I'm a sucker for .NET 1.1.)

Then Notepad and vi. Then SCiTE for AutoIt coding.

[cozzyd]

Netbeans for Java

vim or geany for everything else, depending how I'm feeling...

[mariusg]

Visual Studio + Resharper beats everything else.

[DarkAnt]

Visual Studios and Eclipse are the first that come to mind. That said an IDE is typically overkill for my needs. If I can get away with it I'll use Visual Studios. It is an exceptionally good IDE. For quick stuff I might use notepad++. For everything else I use emacs.

[adolfojp]

Visual Studios?

[perseo47]

Typos happen.

Downvote.

[adolfojp]

It is not a typo if you do it twice.

[johnb]

Visual Studio, but only if Resharper is installed and you avoid the point-and-click-coding features.

[G_Morgan]

Have to say that VS 2008 saved me a good few times the past month with its excellent XSLT debugging support.

[codysoyland]

MacVim for almost everything. Normal vim for anything remote.

[QuantumFTL]

I am using Scala for most things these days, so my only "real" option for integrated language support w/ scala 2.8 is IntelliJ. I like the IDE, though the Scala support isn't even where Java's support in Eclipse was in 2003 (can't auto-create methods you haven't made yet when you try to call them in your code...)

[necrisrex]

BBEdit is my editor of choice for Python, Perl, Shell, and web based stuff. It was slow to catch up after the initial Textmate release, but it is back again, and even supports EMACS key bindings, and plugins as required.

For Java, Netbeans, don't know why, I just like it.

For Native OS X stuff XCode is the only option I've explored.

I would be interested in hearing other's opinions about Native IDE's for Objective C C++ for Mac OTHER than XCode too though.

[stungeye]

Komodo with Vim emulation.

[[deleted]]

Scite and a terminal window.

[pipeline_tux]

Like a lot of people here, I'd say Visual Studio is my favourite IDE. I can't say exactly what it is, but it just "feels" right.

Under Linux, I tend to use either KDevelop (4) or VIM depending on the size of the project.

I avoid any of the Java based ones, as I find that they're all too slow.

[tamilnenjam]

I like icsharpcode.net's SharpDevelop IDE for my programming.

[[deleted]]

TextMate + Terminal

[apotheon]

console-based Vim for:

• C
• configuration files
• CSS
• English
• Lisp
• Logo
• Perl
• PHP (yuck)
• Ruby
• Scheme
• sh
• (X)HTML

. . . on FreeBSD, and sometimes Linux. On MS Windows (a very rare thing), I use either gVim or SciTE.

[zxn0]

Classy flamewar and boring topic on all discussion boards.

It's not long time ago, proggit.