Ask HN: What IDE do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by Blackthorn » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 8:17 PM UTC

I use Emacs. I don't completely like it, but I haven't found anything better out there.

If Jetbrains could embed actual Emacs as its editor, that would be the holy grail for me.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by egberts1 » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 8:32 PM UTC

While it's not an IDE, if you want to tackle a million line code of an existing package and want to insert a tiny feature, I highly recommend Coati.io. It's a must.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by fibo » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 8:55 PM UTC

Vim + plugins + Unix tools (find, make, grep, ack, etc.)

For C# I use Visual Studio, Intellisense autocompletion is gteat.

For Java I use Eclipse, but in One project where I was forced to developer on a remote server with many restrictions I user vim + make + javac, It Is Crazy, I know, but It Is possible

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by vanattab » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

flukus wrote: post #2

Visual Studio (for .net) and vim (everything else), contrary to many vimmers will tell you, it is an IDE, just not a very good one. I'm expecting that to get a lot better though with the feature set added in vim 8 and things like intellisense services ( https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn ), rust and other languages are providing similar tools.

If you would like vim style input to visual studio I recommend vsvim plugin.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by segmondy » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 9:17 PM UTC

Linux.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by flukus » Tue, Jan 10, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

vanattab wrote: post #54

flukus wrote: post #2

Visual Studio (for .net) and vim (everything else), contrary to many vimmers will tell you, it is an IDE, just not a very good one. I'm expecting that to get a lot better though with the feature set added in vim 8 and things like intellisense services ( https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn ), rust and other languages are providing similar tools.

If you would like vim style input to visual studio I recommend vsvim plugin.

It's OK. You still miss out on script ability and the better windowing of vim. The windowing is particularly important on over engineered code bases.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by jaoo » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 5:09 AM UTC

Code Blocks for C++, PyCharm for Python, and Geany for PHP

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by jetti » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 1:05 PM UTC

Visual Studio when I'm doing .NET stuff (mainly C#). I love it and I have not found a better IDE (though my next one is a close rival). Now, I've started working with Elixir in my free time and have started using VS Code and I absolutely love that too. It is close to topping Visual Studio.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by richardboegli » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

theshire wrote: post #26

tedmiston wrote: post #3

You can make a poll - https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Looks I need 200 karma to create a poll.

If you or someone make me a list I'll post it.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 2:41 PM UTC

I used to use Eclipse for Java development years ago. Then I found Sublime Text and haven't looked back. If you just want a lightweight editor that does code highlighting and has an assortment of plugins that are optional then try Sublime. The optional plugins make it so you can get features an IDE has if you choose but don't have the bloat of an IDE.

Also it is truely cross-platform: Windows, Linux and Mac. So if you change jobs, want to use it at home or there is a shift in devs away from Mac to Linux you won't have to learn something new.