On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Boone <[email protected]> wrote: > As you can tell I don't really care for IDE's, for me they mostly get > in the way. I would rather build a working environment in an editor > that let me do that in the way I think is best for me.
I've gotta admit I'm surprised how many people feel a lack of interest in access to IDEs. I find IDEs help me program/debug faster, as they point out errors to me as I commit them, rather than 10+ minutes later when I go to run the code. Usually there's little difference between fixing the error before or after, but every once in a while, the mistake is subtle enough that you end up spending much more time down the road trying to figure out what tidbit of the code went wrong. I wonder... If Emacs/vim came with an IDE, would you use and appreciate it more? Both of your choices have their origins as terminal editors. As a result, they do not readily lend themselves to being an IDE. So I guess my question is whether this an accessibility issue or truly it holds no value for you? Another thing occurs to me, which is we might not have a consistent definition of "IDE" here. Most of these apps offer some features of an IDE. The major one for me is code analysis, but it occurs to me that syntax hilighting, etc. would also be components of an IDE, which would make everything but Notepad an IDE :D Todd _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
