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Ok, tell me which modern IDE I should spent some time with. Is IntelliJ IDEA mentioned here good enough? I'm working on a personal project in my spare time wh

by aerique 14y ago

Ok, tell me which modern IDE I should spent some time with. Is IntelliJ IDEA mentioned here good enough? I'm working on a personal project in my spare time which I can use it on. (Except the project is using Common Lisp so it might not be a good match.) I forgot to mention in my original post that I've also spent time with Unity3D recently although for some reason I didn't think of it when thinking of IDEs I had used in the past.

coldtea 14y ago
>Ok, tell me which modern IDE I should spent some time with. Is IntelliJ IDEA mentioned here good enough? Yes, it's quite good. Visual Studio is also very good in some aspects. And you can also get a lot of mileage out of Eclipse. Also try some Smalltalk environment, you'd be surprised. The thing is, there are things missing from Vim/Emacs that are not easily added as ad-hoc plugins. Not merely this or that feature: what is mostly missing is a coherence in supporting a specific language.
- MartinCron 14y ago
  Visual Studio is also very good in some aspects And once you get ReSharper, also from JetBrains, Visual Studio becomes quite good, too :)
  - EnderMB 14y ago
    Anyone I know that has ever used ReSharper will struggle to work without it. ReSharper is one of the best tools I've ever used, and it makes writing C# a joy.
mongol 14y ago
IntelliJ IDEA is very good for Java, and good also for other JVM languages. But how good it is depends, both on the effort put in by the IDE developers and characteristics of the programming language in question (how well operations in the IDE are supported by the typing characteristics of the language etc) When in Java, there is a mishmash of supporting file types, and it integrates them very well compared to its competitors - jump between .java, .jsp, various .xml for Spring, Hibernate, tag libs, etc etc. If you are "just" programming in a programming language (which is a lost utopia in for J*EE developers), much of this functionality is not of much benefit to you, but you might still find the IDE valuable.
jshen 14y ago
I use emacs and intellij a lot. Let's compare them based on ruby, which they both "support". Out of the box RubyMine (intellij's ruby IDE) works extremely well, especially if you're doing rails projects. Again, this is out of the box with no work on my part. Emacs out of the box (install ruby-mode) is not even close to RubyMine. Now, if I spend many hours, and I value my time a great deal, I can get emacs kinda close to the features of intellij. Frankly, I'd rather pay $60/year than spend many hours trying to get emacs close to as good as RubyMine.

by aerique 14y ago

coldtea 14y ago

>Ok, tell me which modern IDE I should spent some time with. Is IntelliJ IDEA mentioned here good enough? Yes, it's quite good. Visual Studio is also very good in some aspects. And you can also get a lot of mileage out of Eclipse. Also try some Smalltalk environment, you'd be surprised. The thing is, there are things missing from Vim/Emacs that are not easily added as ad-hoc plugins. Not merely this or that feature: what is mostly missing is a coherence in supporting a specific language.

MartinCron 14y ago
Visual Studio is also very good in some aspects And once you get ReSharper, also from JetBrains, Visual Studio becomes quite good, too :)
- EnderMB 14y ago
  Anyone I know that has ever used ReSharper will struggle to work without it. ReSharper is one of the best tools I've ever used, and it makes writing C# a joy.

mongol 14y ago

IntelliJ IDEA is very good for Java, and good also for other JVM languages. But how good it is depends, both on the effort put in by the IDE developers and characteristics of the programming language in question (how well operations in the IDE are supported by the typing characteristics of the language etc) When in Java, there is a mishmash of supporting file types, and it integrates them very well compared to its competitors - jump between .java, .jsp, various .xml for Spring, Hibernate, tag libs, etc etc. If you are "just" programming in a programming language (which is a lost utopia in for J*EE developers), much of this functionality is not of much benefit to you, but you might still find the IDE valuable.

jshen 14y ago

I use emacs and intellij a lot. Let's compare them based on ruby, which they both "support". Out of the box RubyMine (intellij's ruby IDE) works extremely well, especially if you're doing rails projects. Again, this is out of the box with no work on my part. Emacs out of the box (install ruby-mode) is not even close to RubyMine. Now, if I spend many hours, and I value my time a great deal, I can get emacs kinda close to the features of intellij. Frankly, I'd rather pay $60/year than spend many hours trying to get emacs close to as good as RubyMine.