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Because Unix IS an IDE already, with text editors like emacs or vim fitting in nicely with scripting, make, etc, etc.
by wsprague 17y ago
Because Unix IS an IDE already, with text editors like emacs or vim fitting in nicely with scripting, make, etc, etc.
- papaf 17y agoI consider the Unix command line to be my IDE too (I'm mostly a vim user). Just last night my plane was delayed due to heavy storms in Europe and as other peoples heavy laptops were running out of juice I still had hours left on my netbook. The command line is a great environment on low power hardware, it doesn't need a mouse and you don't have to wait for IDE support to start working with a new or obscure technology. That said, I still feel I need netbeans/jvi to do anything with Java -- personally I feel this is due to shortcomings with the language rather than a problem with the way I normally work. In fact, I recently started playing with Scala and, since netbeans didn't really add anything useful, I was able to go back to vim. I feel much more productive in Scala/vim than I ever was in Java/netbeans.