in reply to Which IDE have you been most impressed by?

I've been a proponent of JetBrains for several years. They have a wonderful Open Source Licence arrangement which gives full access to their entire suite of software for Open Source developers. All of their coding IDEs provide use of all plugins across the board, so if I'm using IDEA (which is for Java, but I use it as my exclusive Perl IDE), Rider for C#, CLion for C/C++ or PyCharm for Python, I can implement the plugins I need to be able to use Perl in all of them.

To boot, of course vim is available across the board, so there's that.

I would have voted for vim, as that's all I use everywhere (especially when no GUI IDE is available), but my GUI IDE of choice has that inherent with a plugin.

I use Visual Studio Code for work with one of my clients (not by choice) and it works well with Perl (and vim) plugins, but I'd be rid of it if I could.

With JetBrains, I can even share my IDE configuration between dissimilar OSs. I have a single IDE configuration across my Mac, Linux and Windows systems. (To have vim work correctly, I have to have a consistent vimrc file on each system, but I digress... that's just a simple Ansible deployment).

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