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Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by 0x54MUR41 » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC

For Java development, currently, I use NetBeans IDE because there is GUI editor that helps me easlity to build a desktop-based application using Swing API. I plan to use JetBrain for next development.

Android Studio for Android application development.

Beside that, I also use Vim. Well, actually, it's not a IDE. If I work on something using C, PHP, or scripting language (JavaScript, Ruby), I go with it.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by josep2 » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 9:32 PM UTC

I use Intellij. Mostly work in the JVM so it's the right choice. Pretty heavy, but we're all used to that in JVM land.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by ojiikun » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 2:21 AM UTC

vim & (make|gradle|maven|ant)

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by miguelrochefort » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 10:24 AM UTC

Visual Studio for C# and Xamarin.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by onetom » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

7 years vim for bash, awk, Forth, Rebol, Ruby

5 years Sublime Text for bash, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

1 year (since 2016) IntelliJ+Cursive for Clojure(Script)

I've seriously tried Light Table, Atom, Visual Studio Code, Nightcode too for several days and tried to customize them all to my needs.

I gave a try to Cloud9, Nitrous, Koding, but I usually live on low bandwidth, so none of these were viable options.

While the JetBrains family of IDEs are super smart, ultimately the speed of your machine and your patience is what matters when choosing and IDE.

Sublime Text is the winner if you consider speed and memory usage, but its code navigation features are not precise.

JetBrains is the winner from convenience perspective, BUT you need 4GHz i7 with 16GB RAM if you expect Sublime Text-like responsiveness. I think it worth the investment but I was not been able to afford it for many years either...

Btw, the killer feature in JetBrains IDEs is their git interface. I think they have the greatest, cross-platform 3-way merge interface.

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by eb0la » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

cardosof wrote: post #18

Wordstar. Just kidding: Mostly RStudio (R), jupyter notebooks (python) and Sublime Text for everything else Really liked Atom but it always crashed with big .txt files.

Sublime is great for hacking your way through a CSV file very quickly.

I write in Sublime at least 20% of my formulas and then paste it into Tableau and Talend. Easier (even without autocompletion) than working in a small window/pane than I usually have inside that tools, plus I use a new line for every change, so I can see what I had before (there is no version control for Business Intelligence).

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by Raed667 » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 11:32 PM UTC

WebStorm & PhpStorm ... I'm using the free student license however... I'm not sure if I'll buy them when it expires

Re: Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

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Post by a-saleh » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:13 PM UTC

theshire wrote: post #24

a-saleh wrote: post #17

Long time ago, when I was learning Java, I liked Eclipse. Currently on my desktop, I mostly switch between Atom and Visual Studio code, because I mostly write for nodejs, or I am trying out something weirder, like purescript, or elm, or clojure, and these two editors usually have good plugins to deal with them. When I am on ssh, I use vim.I develop stuff in vim, in tmux over ssh often, because that is the simplest I…

how do you live preview let's HTML APP on VS Code? Like Brackets has it. I guess I can hit f1 and view in browser but is not "Live" and gets tiring refreshing the page.

To be honest, I don't usually do html. I lived for a few days basically inside of the VS Code nodejs debugger and it was ok, what else do you need than combine data from few requests and spit out a json, right? :-)