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Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?

23 points by tzury 19y ago

Linux with Gnome or KDE. Mac or Windows? Laptop or desktop? In case of Linux, which distro?

amour 19y ago
xandros (eee pc version) + KDE + emacs windows + eclipse --->had to use for "other" work stuffs fedora + Gnome + emacs ---> fave Most important : Flash Drive, IPod, and laptop or desktop and I can code wherever and whenever I want.
mrtron 19y ago
Currently a Macbook + Textmate
Xichekolas 19y ago
Gentoo + gedit + terminal + scheme/ruby/erlang + Google.
aneesh 19y ago
Once I really get into the code, I couldn't care less what OS I'm on. I care about OS more for general use.
brianloveswords 19y ago
Macbook Pro + Emacs (aquamacs) = Love. Anyone else find that they are absolutely bound to emacs and no matter what else you try to use, you find yourself, like a turtle returning to the beach where it was born, going back to emacs? P.S. I have nothing against vi, but you know, turtles and nature and all of that.
- PStamatiou 19y ago
  one word: butterflies
kingnothing 19y ago
I use the latest Netbeans Ruby IDE dev releases, so OS isn't much of a concern. Just for the record though, I use linux with Gnome, Ubuntu 7.10. Your dev environment matters less than having two or more monitors in my opinion, though.
DarrenStuart 19y ago
.net vs05(vs08 seems like it needs a service pack) on windows php coda/code igniter on mas osx(using mamp)
- suboptimal 19y ago
  Darren, you a CodeIgniter guy? If you haven't already, I highly recommend getting started with the new ASP.NET MVC framework--it almost makes working with .NET in the day job tolerable (yes, "almost").
  - DarrenStuart 19y ago
    Thanks yeah I tried the first release but it would not work on my fresh install of vs08 and .net 3.5 I'll give it a go again.
Hexstream 19y ago
My preferable development environment would be an IDE I built myself, perfectly tailored to the peculiars of MY workflow. It would also need to feature easy extensibility to make it affordable to extend it, sometimes on a per-project basis. I'd eventually end up working on optimizing my productivity in a quite direct manner, by analysing what the bottlenecks (anything that hampers Flow) are in my different projects and devising solutions. When you work in Lisp by making DSL's and generally problem-specific extensions, I think the next logical step is to extend the IDE to support it directly (especially if you use the extension in many projects). If for example you make a CSS DSL, it would be great to have full property completion support, syntax highlighting and the other usual suspects. Two areas I expect to work on a lot is 1. making the operations of my IDE more "semantic" (as in, adapted to what I want to do. If it's easy to think about, it should be easy and quick to carry it out) and 2. Making a system of views that would let me bypass the traditional file-based view of a project. If you program in a mostly functional way, most of the time the load order and segregation into files is much less important than other possible views of the project.
davidw 19y ago
Ubuntu + Emacs.
pibefision 19y ago
MacBook + TextMate + RoR
- moog 19y ago
  Same here, however I've started treating my laptop as a 'thin client'. All my files are hosted on my iMac, which I access over Wi-Fi when at home, or via iDisk/Back to My Mac when elsewhere.
- jharper 19y ago
  Same + Cocoa Mysql + Unfuddle
apgwoz 19y ago
12" PowerBook with Carbon Emacs 22 (if you're not using Emacs 22, you definitely should be). It's as portable as I can get without getting cramps from typing. I am looking to check out the Lenovo U110 when it drops though, in which case I'll run Debian 4.0 with Xmonad.
- jsmcgd 19y ago
  I was using Emacs 21 but on your advice I installed 22. OMG! I was developing cataracts with 21, it was just so damn ugly. GTK is like corrective eye surgery. Cheers mate.
arnoooooo 19y ago
Fedora + KDE + Vim
suboptimal 19y ago
vim on my MBP (formerly on my Dell laptop running Ubuntu). I enjoy vim because it rewards me for learning new commands (referencing the "What software makes you happy?" thread).
kuratkull 19y ago
Desktop + Arch Linux + openbox + gvim C, Python, Common Lisp
watmough 19y ago
NetBeans (Sometimes TextMate), Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro, with all code in a Subversion repository. I started using TextMate, but I find a bunch of things like how it jacks up indenting when pasting, and flashes when matching tabs. NetBeans handles both these things much more nicely.
eelinow 19y ago
MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.2, Emacs, Python primarily, with occasional outbursts of TextMate, Lisp, Perl, Ruby and Logo (for teaching mathematical concepts to my son.)
bkrausz 19y ago
Windows (Office 2007 won me over temporarily from *nix) and nano over SSH. I get yelled at almost daily to switch to emacs. I'm used to it though, I use Word 2007 instead of LaTeX and will never hear the end of it.
Skeletor 19y ago
Ubuntu Linux with xterm windows, Eclipse, and emacs for those times when you just need some special behavior tied to your F1 key.
comatose_kid 19y ago
Emacs, OS X.
edu 19y ago
MacBook + Cinema Display 23" + emacs + vmware fusion + safari + coffee + ikea furniture + http://last.fm/user/egimenez http://last.fm/user/egimenez
apathy 19y ago
vim, screen, svn... Don't use lisp(s) enough to enjoy Emacs anymore.
neelesh 19y ago
Ubuntu ,NetBeans(for RoR), Eclipse(for Python/Django, Java)
- ropiku 19y ago
  +1. Ubuntu 7.10, NetBeans 6 (Ruby), Git on my 14" laptop. Very rarely using Eclipse (for Java). How is it for Python ? I am thinking about learning Python and Django.
  - neelesh 19y ago
    reasonably good with PyDev. Not as good as NB for RoR though
pinecone 19y ago
OS X, GNU Emacs, gcc, gdb, MzScheme.
ericb 19y ago
Mac Book Pro (15) with key mappings for home and end "fixed" with a 27.5 inch hanns g monitor (good, cheap and big). Netbeans b/c debugging can be handy.
mullr 19y ago
VS 2k5/2k8 while at work for The Man, emacs on OSX/linux while hacking at home.
muriithi 19y ago
Emacs 22 on Fedora 8 & SciTE on Windows
jcromartie 19y ago
OS X, laptop, Textmate, and Emacs. Textmate is just more approachable when it comes to extending the editor, though, so I usually use it for odds and ends over Emacs. Emacs is great for well structured projects in well supported languages.
zemariamm 19y ago
Mac Book, OSX 10.5 , textmate (ruby,python,...) , eclipse (Lisp - cups, Java, C++)
voldern 19y ago
Arch Linux + KDEmod + VIM & Code::Blocks (PHP, Ruby and C++)
mk 19y ago
At the day job: Ubuntu with Gnome, vim. At home working on startup/contract work: Macbook running OS X 10.5.whatever the latest, vim, sometimes emacs or aquamacs if I'm messing around with scheme.
henning 19y ago
Java or Scala, Linux.
ovi256 19y ago
Dell Inspiron + Ubuntu + vim + Python/PyQt/Django/RoR/MySQL
jamiequint 19y ago
Textmate + OS X
staunch 19y ago
Linux + gvim + gnome-terminal @ 1920x1200 15" laptop.
jdvolz 19y ago
Windows: VS 2005.NET, ActiveState (Python and Ruby), notepad++ Ubuntu: Gnome, gedit, RoR, Spidermonkey
jamesbritt 19y ago
vim, kubuntu on a Dell D830, Mercurial Lately doing Ruby (Ramaze apps) and JRuby (building Swing GUI apps using Monkeybars). I use Netbeans for some of the JRuby stuff, but do most code editing in vim
andr 19y ago
preferable: a cocktail, a lounge chair, sand, and the Mediterranean + a phone to call my peon developers and tell them what to do ;)
entelarust 19y ago
Coda, OSX, some TextMate
JesseAldridge 19y ago
Ubuntu + Python + Scite atm
tzury 19y ago
here is mine: Ubuntu, Scite, nano, ssh, LightTPD, Python, gcc, gcl and Firebug. Virtual Box with FreeBSD and Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2 (for pre deployment testing) Thank you all for sharing.
NoBSWebDesign 19y ago
Ubuntu with decked out Gedit, desktop with two monitors. I also have a tablet with XP. My favorite editor for Rails is RoRed, but it only works for Windows :(
albertcardona 19y ago
ubuntu+xterm+screen+vim+git and bash/python scripts.
hollerith 19y ago
Note: all the software I have developed so far has been for personal use. I use a desktop computer with a Microsoft Natural keyboard, Arch Linux, Emacs, Emacs Lisp, the shell rc. The elements I am most pleased with are the keyboard and the shell rc. I am also pretty happy with Emacs Lisp, especially its manual and commands like C-h c C-h w and C-h f. Too many administration hassles with Arch Linux though. To reduce hassles, I would buy OS X if I were not very low income.
iowahansen 19y ago
* 15" Macbook Pro, 4GB, 10.4.8 (waiting for 10.5.3 before upgrading). * Quicksilver (one of the big reasons I switched to Mac in the first place) * IntelliJ IDEA for Java backend stuff (imho, the best code virtuoso tool out there bar none; once you get used to leveraging all the functionality, you will feel crippled in any other environment). * iTerm for terminal needs * Journler (perfect for note taking and keeping interesting reference web pages locally searchable) * VMware Fusion for Windows development stuff * NetNewsWire to consume my daily news fix efficiently
- apgwoz 19y ago
  Why the wait til 10.5.3? I use Quicksilver on my Powerbook (running Tiger), but Spotlight is fast enough on the Intel iMac, running Leopard, I use at work that I removed Quicksilver from the system completely.
  - iowahansen 19y ago
    I used to be bleeding edge, always upgrading to the latest version of anything that came out, but as a consequence ran into occasions where things broke that were working perfectly before (and ended up wasting time getting things back to normal again). My guess is that with 10.5.3 the majority of the rough spots have been smoothed out and all my favorite applications had time to make the Leopard transition.
dhimes 19y ago
For web work: fedora 8, vim php For desktop app work: netbeans, java (!) either winxp or fedora 8 For mathematical work: Mathematica + win xp For fooling around learning new stuff: fedora 8 + python
hs 19y ago
small underpowered laptop, openbsd, dwm, newlisp, vim, javascript, jquery-ui, flot, lighttpd, hg, ssh, cron ubuntu+ff+ie4linux+opera+kazehakaze+jquery for testing mini+leopard+safari for testing deprecated:freebsd,python,php,sqlite,mysqlite,darcs,matlab,R my mini and desktop are far more powerful than my 450mhz 128mb fujitsu laptop; i might get an eeepc tho, only iff openbsd can run all the hardwares my iBookG4 broke last year, it's weird but i didn't miss her that much
davo11 19y ago
Delphi - I'm all alone :-(
- jawngee 19y ago
  I used to Delphi, if that makes you feel any better.
bootload 19y ago
"... What is your preferable development environment? ..." Normal gnu setup ... - ubuntu64, gnome, vim, bash, xterm, & git - various langs - python, perl, Js, sql, c & basic LAMP stack. - browser with firebug, dom inspector, html validator, js debugger, noscript - commodity desktop hardware + 22" + good speakers.
maxwell 19y ago
OS X, Firebug, TextMate, Git. JavaScript, Python, Io, Arc.
jawngee 19y ago
Eclipse (PDT/Flex Builder) + Text Mate + Aqua Data Studio + PostgresqlMaestro + nano (eat it vi! shove your c-h-ch-x-f-u-ch-k-sh-i-t emacs!) + iTerm + SubEthaEdit (for pair programming)
urlwolf 19y ago
Netbeans for RoR, gvim for everything else (perl, R, autohotkey, actionscript, C). Mercurial. 1920 x 1200 laptop in portrait position with an external IBM keyboard.
icky 19y ago
Ubuntu Laptop, vim, caps-lock-as-additional-ctrl, windows-key bound to new-terminal-window, C, Python, Lisp, Python, Lua, Python. Mercurial.
phaedrus 19y ago
My evolution (doing C++ development on Linux): 1. First I tried Eclipse. And tried it again, and again. I couldn't figure out how to do the simplest darn things in Eclipse, hated the interface, and it just seemed too complicated to me. 2. Switched to vim + commandline. Invoking gcc directly. 3. Tried emacs - decided I felt the same way about it is I did about Eclipse. Too complicated and I can't figure out simple things. 4. Switched to GEdit + makefiles; still doing a lot on the command line. 5. Looked for a good visual IDE; discovered Anjuta. Was really impressed and happy for about 2 hours. After 2 days and Anjuta crashed for the 1000th time in a row, I wanted to strangle the programmers who wrote Anjuta. 6. Discovered KDevelop. KDevelop is a pleasure to use. Feature complete, very productive, no problems. Got to first milestone in project faster than expected, primarily because KDevelop was so good to work in.
janx 19y ago
archlinux+wmii+aterm+vim+rails+unfuddle+svn...
asjo 19y ago
Debian GNU/Linux, XEmacs, xterms, darcs, theobromin.

23 points by tzury 19y ago

Linux with Gnome or KDE. Mac or Windows? Laptop or desktop? In case of Linux, which distro?

amour 19y ago

xandros (eee pc version) + KDE + emacs windows + eclipse --->had to use for "other" work stuffs fedora + Gnome + emacs ---> fave Most important : Flash Drive, IPod, and laptop or desktop and I can code wherever and whenever I want.

mrtron 19y ago

Currently a Macbook + Textmate

Xichekolas 19y ago

Gentoo + gedit + terminal + scheme/ruby/erlang + Google.

aneesh 19y ago

Once I really get into the code, I couldn't care less what OS I'm on. I care about OS more for general use.

brianloveswords 19y ago

Macbook Pro + Emacs (aquamacs) = Love. Anyone else find that they are absolutely bound to emacs and no matter what else you try to use, you find yourself, like a turtle returning to the beach where it was born, going back to emacs? P.S. I have nothing against vi, but you know, turtles and nature and all of that.

PStamatiou 19y ago
one word: butterflies

kingnothing 19y ago

I use the latest Netbeans Ruby IDE dev releases, so OS isn't much of a concern. Just for the record though, I use linux with Gnome, Ubuntu 7.10. Your dev environment matters less than having two or more monitors in my opinion, though.

DarrenStuart 19y ago

.net vs05(vs08 seems like it needs a service pack) on windows php coda/code igniter on mas osx(using mamp)

suboptimal 19y ago
Darren, you a CodeIgniter guy? If you haven't already, I highly recommend getting started with the new ASP.NET MVC framework--it almost makes working with .NET in the day job tolerable (yes, "almost").
- DarrenStuart 19y ago
  Thanks yeah I tried the first release but it would not work on my fresh install of vs08 and .net 3.5 I'll give it a go again.

Hexstream 19y ago

My preferable development environment would be an IDE I built myself, perfectly tailored to the peculiars of MY workflow. It would also need to feature easy extensibility to make it affordable to extend it, sometimes on a per-project basis. I'd eventually end up working on optimizing my productivity in a quite direct manner, by analysing what the bottlenecks (anything that hampers Flow) are in my different projects and devising solutions. When you work in Lisp by making DSL's and generally problem-specific extensions, I think the next logical step is to extend the IDE to support it directly (especially if you use the extension in many projects). If for example you make a CSS DSL, it would be great to have full property completion support, syntax highlighting and the other usual suspects. Two areas I expect to work on a lot is 1. making the operations of my IDE more "semantic" (as in, adapted to what I want to do. If it's easy to think about, it should be easy and quick to carry it out) and 2. Making a system of views that would let me bypass the traditional file-based view of a project. If you program in a mostly functional way, most of the time the load order and segregation into files is much less important than other possible views of the project.

davidw 19y ago

Ubuntu + Emacs.

pibefision 19y ago

MacBook + TextMate + RoR

moog 19y ago
Same here, however I've started treating my laptop as a 'thin client'. All my files are hosted on my iMac, which I access over Wi-Fi when at home, or via iDisk/Back to My Mac when elsewhere.
jharper 19y ago
Same + Cocoa Mysql + Unfuddle

apgwoz 19y ago

12" PowerBook with Carbon Emacs 22 (if you're not using Emacs 22, you definitely should be). It's as portable as I can get without getting cramps from typing. I am looking to check out the Lenovo U110 when it drops though, in which case I'll run Debian 4.0 with Xmonad.

jsmcgd 19y ago
I was using Emacs 21 but on your advice I installed 22. OMG! I was developing cataracts with 21, it was just so damn ugly. GTK is like corrective eye surgery. Cheers mate.

arnoooooo 19y ago

Fedora + KDE + Vim

suboptimal 19y ago

vim on my MBP (formerly on my Dell laptop running Ubuntu). I enjoy vim because it rewards me for learning new commands (referencing the "What software makes you happy?" thread).

kuratkull 19y ago

Desktop + Arch Linux + openbox + gvim C, Python, Common Lisp

watmough 19y ago

NetBeans (Sometimes TextMate), Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro, with all code in a Subversion repository. I started using TextMate, but I find a bunch of things like how it jacks up indenting when pasting, and flashes when matching tabs. NetBeans handles both these things much more nicely.

eelinow 19y ago

MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.2, Emacs, Python primarily, with occasional outbursts of TextMate, Lisp, Perl, Ruby and Logo (for teaching mathematical concepts to my son.)

bkrausz 19y ago

Windows (Office 2007 won me over temporarily from *nix) and nano over SSH. I get yelled at almost daily to switch to emacs. I'm used to it though, I use Word 2007 instead of LaTeX and will never hear the end of it.

Skeletor 19y ago

Ubuntu Linux with xterm windows, Eclipse, and emacs for those times when you just need some special behavior tied to your F1 key.

comatose_kid 19y ago

Emacs, OS X.

edu 19y ago

MacBook + Cinema Display 23" + emacs + vmware fusion + safari + coffee + ikea furniture + http://last.fm/user/egimenez http://last.fm/user/egimenez

apathy 19y ago

vim, screen, svn... Don't use lisp(s) enough to enjoy Emacs anymore.

neelesh 19y ago

Ubuntu ,NetBeans(for RoR), Eclipse(for Python/Django, Java)

ropiku 19y ago
+1. Ubuntu 7.10, NetBeans 6 (Ruby), Git on my 14" laptop. Very rarely using Eclipse (for Java). How is it for Python ? I am thinking about learning Python and Django.
- neelesh 19y ago
  reasonably good with PyDev. Not as good as NB for RoR though

pinecone 19y ago

OS X, GNU Emacs, gcc, gdb, MzScheme.

ericb 19y ago

Mac Book Pro (15) with key mappings for home and end "fixed" with a 27.5 inch hanns g monitor (good, cheap and big). Netbeans b/c debugging can be handy.

mullr 19y ago

VS 2k5/2k8 while at work for The Man, emacs on OSX/linux while hacking at home.

muriithi 19y ago

Emacs 22 on Fedora 8 & SciTE on Windows

jcromartie 19y ago

OS X, laptop, Textmate, and Emacs. Textmate is just more approachable when it comes to extending the editor, though, so I usually use it for odds and ends over Emacs. Emacs is great for well structured projects in well supported languages.

zemariamm 19y ago

Mac Book, OSX 10.5 , textmate (ruby,python,...) , eclipse (Lisp - cups, Java, C++)

voldern 19y ago

Arch Linux + KDEmod + VIM & Code::Blocks (PHP, Ruby and C++)

mk 19y ago

At the day job: Ubuntu with Gnome, vim. At home working on startup/contract work: Macbook running OS X 10.5.whatever the latest, vim, sometimes emacs or aquamacs if I'm messing around with scheme.

henning 19y ago

Java or Scala, Linux.

ovi256 19y ago

Dell Inspiron + Ubuntu + vim + Python/PyQt/Django/RoR/MySQL

jamiequint 19y ago

Textmate + OS X

staunch 19y ago

Linux + gvim + gnome-terminal @ 1920x1200 15" laptop.

jdvolz 19y ago

Windows: VS 2005.NET, ActiveState (Python and Ruby), notepad++ Ubuntu: Gnome, gedit, RoR, Spidermonkey

jamesbritt 19y ago

vim, kubuntu on a Dell D830, Mercurial Lately doing Ruby (Ramaze apps) and JRuby (building Swing GUI apps using Monkeybars). I use Netbeans for some of the JRuby stuff, but do most code editing in vim

andr 19y ago

preferable: a cocktail, a lounge chair, sand, and the Mediterranean + a phone to call my peon developers and tell them what to do ;)

entelarust 19y ago

Coda, OSX, some TextMate

JesseAldridge 19y ago

Ubuntu + Python + Scite atm

tzury 19y ago

here is mine: Ubuntu, Scite, nano, ssh, LightTPD, Python, gcc, gcl and Firebug. Virtual Box with FreeBSD and Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2 (for pre deployment testing) Thank you all for sharing.

NoBSWebDesign 19y ago

Ubuntu with decked out Gedit, desktop with two monitors. I also have a tablet with XP. My favorite editor for Rails is RoRed, but it only works for Windows :(

albertcardona 19y ago

ubuntu+xterm+screen+vim+git and bash/python scripts.

hollerith 19y ago

Note: all the software I have developed so far has been for personal use. I use a desktop computer with a Microsoft Natural keyboard, Arch Linux, Emacs, Emacs Lisp, the shell rc. The elements I am most pleased with are the keyboard and the shell rc. I am also pretty happy with Emacs Lisp, especially its manual and commands like C-h c C-h w and C-h f. Too many administration hassles with Arch Linux though. To reduce hassles, I would buy OS X if I were not very low income.

iowahansen 19y ago

* 15" Macbook Pro, 4GB, 10.4.8 (waiting for 10.5.3 before upgrading). * Quicksilver (one of the big reasons I switched to Mac in the first place) * IntelliJ IDEA for Java backend stuff (imho, the best code virtuoso tool out there bar none; once you get used to leveraging all the functionality, you will feel crippled in any other environment). * iTerm for terminal needs * Journler (perfect for note taking and keeping interesting reference web pages locally searchable) * VMware Fusion for Windows development stuff * NetNewsWire to consume my daily news fix efficiently

apgwoz 19y ago
Why the wait til 10.5.3? I use Quicksilver on my Powerbook (running Tiger), but Spotlight is fast enough on the Intel iMac, running Leopard, I use at work that I removed Quicksilver from the system completely.
- iowahansen 19y ago
  I used to be bleeding edge, always upgrading to the latest version of anything that came out, but as a consequence ran into occasions where things broke that were working perfectly before (and ended up wasting time getting things back to normal again). My guess is that with 10.5.3 the majority of the rough spots have been smoothed out and all my favorite applications had time to make the Leopard transition.

dhimes 19y ago

For web work: fedora 8, vim php For desktop app work: netbeans, java (!) either winxp or fedora 8 For mathematical work: Mathematica + win xp For fooling around learning new stuff: fedora 8 + python

hs 19y ago

small underpowered laptop, openbsd, dwm, newlisp, vim, javascript, jquery-ui, flot, lighttpd, hg, ssh, cron ubuntu+ff+ie4linux+opera+kazehakaze+jquery for testing mini+leopard+safari for testing deprecated:freebsd,python,php,sqlite,mysqlite,darcs,matlab,R my mini and desktop are far more powerful than my 450mhz 128mb fujitsu laptop; i might get an eeepc tho, only iff openbsd can run all the hardwares my iBookG4 broke last year, it's weird but i didn't miss her that much

davo11 19y ago

Delphi - I'm all alone :-(

jawngee 19y ago
I used to Delphi, if that makes you feel any better.

bootload 19y ago

"... What is your preferable development environment? ..." Normal gnu setup ... - ubuntu64, gnome, vim, bash, xterm, & git - various langs - python, perl, Js, sql, c & basic LAMP stack. - browser with firebug, dom inspector, html validator, js debugger, noscript - commodity desktop hardware + 22" + good speakers.

maxwell 19y ago

OS X, Firebug, TextMate, Git. JavaScript, Python, Io, Arc.

jawngee 19y ago

Eclipse (PDT/Flex Builder) + Text Mate + Aqua Data Studio + PostgresqlMaestro + nano (eat it vi! shove your c-h-ch-x-f-u-ch-k-sh-i-t emacs!) + iTerm + SubEthaEdit (for pair programming)

urlwolf 19y ago

Netbeans for RoR, gvim for everything else (perl, R, autohotkey, actionscript, C). Mercurial. 1920 x 1200 laptop in portrait position with an external IBM keyboard.

icky 19y ago

Ubuntu Laptop, vim, caps-lock-as-additional-ctrl, windows-key bound to new-terminal-window, C, Python, Lisp, Python, Lua, Python. Mercurial.

phaedrus 19y ago

My evolution (doing C++ development on Linux): 1. First I tried Eclipse. And tried it again, and again. I couldn't figure out how to do the simplest darn things in Eclipse, hated the interface, and it just seemed too complicated to me. 2. Switched to vim + commandline. Invoking gcc directly. 3. Tried emacs - decided I felt the same way about it is I did about Eclipse. Too complicated and I can't figure out simple things. 4. Switched to GEdit + makefiles; still doing a lot on the command line. 5. Looked for a good visual IDE; discovered Anjuta. Was really impressed and happy for about 2 hours. After 2 days and Anjuta crashed for the 1000th time in a row, I wanted to strangle the programmers who wrote Anjuta. 6. Discovered KDevelop. KDevelop is a pleasure to use. Feature complete, very productive, no problems. Got to first milestone in project faster than expected, primarily because KDevelop was so good to work in.

janx 19y ago

archlinux+wmii+aterm+vim+rails+unfuddle+svn...

asjo 19y ago

Debian GNU/Linux, XEmacs, xterms, darcs, theobromin.