MPW, CodeWarrior, Visual Studio, Emacs, XEmacs, vi, NetBeans, Eclipse, TextMate, XMLSpy, NotePad, and any number of editors/IDEs all which I’ve used to write code. It’s crazy, but I’ve gone through more editors than programming languages and I still haven’t settled on one that makes me really happy. I almost standardized on Emacs, but it was too much like Linux in that I spent too much time working on it instead of using it. I almost standardized on Eclipse, but that thing is such a memory pig on Windows. I feel like ditching that thing but it’s the standard at work. I want TextMate’s simplicity and project-wide find, Emacs’ auto-complete and integrated shell, and Eclipses debugging and refactoring tools.
One of the big things that thwarts my efforts to find a single editor/IDE is that I use Windows at work and a Mac for everything else. If I ever leave my current job, I’m working somewhere that’s a Mac shop or is platform agnostic so I can choose a Mac to work on.
What brought this on? I was flirting with Emacs again, did I mention I love the integrated shell? Checked out the Cucumber bundle for TextMate, did I mention I love running tests with command-R? And suffered through a day of 400MB Eclipse taking 10s of seconds to open a JSP, did I mention that Eclipse is a memory pig on Windows?!?!
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