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Intellij IDEA. Hands down my favorite piece of dev software I use.

• kansface 13y ago
  Idea is abysmal at editing ruby/node, even with the plugins for those environments. He could grab webstorm and ruby mine? but that would be quite an investment.
  • noarchy 13y ago
    It would be an investment, but for a software developer these are professional tools. The problem, though, is that free alternatives exist for those who don't mind a learning curve.
    • kansface 13y ago
      Oh I didn't mean exclusively in terms of time. Using a quasi open source editor means you are invested into the future of the editor itself (see TextMate). Having said that, Jetbrains has been around for a while and Idea is kick ass for Java.
  • conradfr 13y ago
    Well yes for Ruby and Rails you would use RubyMine (Webstorm is included in it anyway), not InteliJ. I only know PhpStorm but I don't regret the investment, time and money-wise (bought it on sale though).
    • TylerE 13y ago
      Why? It's the exact same plugin code. The. same. plugin. code.
      • kansface 13y ago
        Sure, the SDK is the same, but the UI is tottaly different. Just setting up the project in Idea will take a day or two (because the UI is bad).