The Top 10 Integrated Development Environments

Here is a list according to market shares:

1. Visual Studio
2. Eclipse
3. Android Studio
4. Vim
5. Netbeans
6. Xcode
7. Sublime Text
8. Intellij
9. Komodo
10. Zamarin

An updated and compiled list can be found here.

I'm curious to see what you guys use most often. I've noticed that many of us work on different types of software by being in the Sythe Programming Group found on Skype. There have been mentions of mobile, web, and console applications being developed.

Let me know what IDE you guys are using most often and the type of application you're typically developing!

 

I've used at least half that list, lol. Currently using Sublime Text for Python stuff.

RIP emacs :'(

 

I never used Sublime until recently someone suggested it to me for JavaScript. I was using it until a popup telling me that I needed to register happened to appear on my screen.

What makes it worth the money, when there are so many high-quality and free alternatives?

 

The pop-up is just to annoy you, lol. I'm sure there's a way to get it removed without paying for it, but it doesn't really bother me that much.

 

I was thinking that it was a limited time access type of deal, but I guess that was a silly mistake since they don't require registration. I'm going to keep using it. Andy mentioned that there are useful plugins to download too, I'll have to try them out.

Recently I've been experimenting with a lot of different environments, trying to find the one I'm most comfortable using or is that most compatible with my interest.

Have you been working on any projects with Python lately? What type of application are using Python to build?

 

Vim isn't an IDE. It's just a text editor and that's what I use.

 

"An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development."

I've never used Vim, but it looks to me that it falls under the definition of an IDE; although that can be manipulated due to people having their perspectives.

That top 10 list was pulled from a relatively reputable website; I feel like they would be accurate on following the credentials of an IDE than me. After a little research, people like to consider it a text editor that is as powerful as an IDE due to its functionality.

Do you use it for everything? What type of software do you create (ex. Windows applications)? What language do you typically use to code?

 

Vim doesn't provide anything other than editing text. It is no more suited for software development than it is for writing a novel or taking notes in class. You can add a bunch of plugins to it that make it much more IDE like but at it's core it is designed just to make editing text as easy and efficient as possible. It really is less a text editor and more a programming language specifically designed for editing text.

I use vim for all of my programming. At work I mostly write C++ and Javascript. At home I mostly write Haskell.

For work I write basically RESTFUL APIs for an AngularJS frontend. For Haskell I have just made terminal applications. I've never made a Windows application.

 

Interesting. What Linux distribution do you run? I've taken several courses using Ubuntu, Fedora, Fedora 24, and a few others. We typically worked with BASH while automating the Linux commands, or to make a dragon appear on the terminal saying a random welcome message .

I've been trying to find a project to use AngularJS because I want to learn that framework. It feels like that is being used all over the place.

 

My work uses red hat and I run debian at home.

 

I've never directly used Red Hat for anything, but I was taught Fedora 23 because it is supposed to be very similar. By the way, I meant to type Fedora 23 and not 24 in my earlier post.

What is the reason you prefer to use Debian at home? Do you contribute to their development community?

 

I like debian's stance on freedom.

 

VSCode + GitHub - Microsoft/vscode-go: An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Go language. = great for golang, pretty smooth workflow.

I fucking hate Atom, even though they're both based on Electron for some reason Atom just runs slow as dog shit and freezes all the time. VSCode is slick though.

 

That is awesome, I never knew VSCode existed until now. I'm studying Visual Studio Community 2015, trying to learn the environment and how to apply my knowledge using it's easy GUI creation system for Windows applications. I'll have to download VSCode for a lower resource-usage version for simple code snippets, thanks for sharing that.

I've never used the Go language, I just watched a video about it. It seems like it's purpose is help the developers at Google build their software with useful methodologies that is compatible with their Engineer's workflow. It looks similar to Python. What type of software do you write using the Go language?

Merica.

 

It's more than just that. I want to be able to inspect what my computer is running to know how it works. I want to be able to change it to work the way I want to work. I want the ability to customize things so that they work the way I want them to. I want to not be held hostage by IP or copyright or changes on a whim from some board of directors somewhere. I want to be able to trust the source of my software and support a organization that defends people's ability to freely express themselves all over the world, even when their governments try to stop them. Debian is about so much more than just 'Mucica.