"What's the best IDE you've ever used?

So begins a holy war.....

vim

Cheers, Sören

I second that! :-)

"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."

Talking about editor wars, VI's philosophy is to use external not internal tools, so by definition it's pretty much the opposite of an I DE.

Cheers Rolf
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Although I haven't used it this millennium, LSE was an absolute necessity for doing proper dev work on VMS back in the day.

s/vim/A vi-compatible editor (vi, vim, gvim, nvi, elvis, ...)/

Not that I would recommend it, but if you have Eclipse in the list (which I loathe), then certainly Netbeans should be on there too (also not used for the last 3 years)

To me, nothing beats Elvis (yet), thought its Unicode support is lacking


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

There are many editors on this list that I "loathe" but I tried to be inclusive.

Never used Eclipse/EPIC and I think it hasn't been maintained for many years.

And I doubt even Gabor is using Padre.

> s/vim/A vi-compatible editor (vi, vim, gvim, nvi, elvis, ...)/

and neovim? :)

I don't claim to know all players in this niche, I also didn't add all emacs clones. So I updated "vi'ish"

> Netbeans

Well I thought it belongs to the JetBrain universe with all its different brands. Added it too.

But guys, you can also reply directly to the OP. =)

edit

FWIW: If I was immortal, I would start a project to centralize integrated Perl support for all editor-interfaces (debugger-integration, code-completion, snippets, etc).

Like Language Server Protocol but more extensive and Perlish and with a testing framework to ensure those features really work and don't start breaking with the next release.

Cheers Rolf
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