Maybe a CPU hog in some sense. But, who cares. Computing power is cheap nowadays. I have a 3 year old P4 with a couple of gigs of RAM and it really doesn't break a sweat. I have been running the Ruby release of Netbeans, VMware for testing IE, Aqua Data Studio, Firefox and Thunderbird simultaneously (among other apps) all morning and never noticed a slow down. Maybe it runs better on Linux than on the environment you tried it on.
IDEs have their place for some people (though not for everyone). I used to be a console only developer. But, I have grown to appreciate having everything in one place (especially since I am not a full time Ruby developer). For example, being able to do things like single step through running Rails code and edit it in place with an editor I am used to has a certain appeal. -- Bill Young Director of Computing Support Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3B 1212 Phone: (858) 822-3286 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Aimonetti wrote on 02/15/08 12:41: > NetBeans 6 is a CPU hog even with a decent computer, I personally stay > away from it. (and honestly, I don't need an IDE) > > I totally agree with Kevin, if you deploy on windows use windows (but > you might want to consider looking for a job somewhere else), otherwise > stick to Linux/Mac. > > -Matt > > On 2/15/08, *Bill Young* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > I am a long term vi/vim user as well. However, Netbeans 6 with the jvi > plugin sure is nice. > > For the original poster, one of my staff was developing on Windows and > ended up switching to Linux. The reason for that may have been along > the lines of what Kevin said about developing on the same platform as we > deploy on (we deploy on Linux). It is just easier to shuffle the files > around that way and any problems you run into may be more similar > between your production and development environments. In any case, I > have been Linux from the start and am a happy camper. > > -- > Bill Young > Director of Computing Support > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of California, San Diego > Office: EBU3B 1212 > Phone: (858) 822-3286 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kenneth Lee wrote on 02/15/08 11:12: > > > VIM is all I need. Call me old school, but I don't even use a > windowing > > system. I connect via the console and use screen + VIM. > > > > On 2/15/08, *Randy Walker* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > > > I've tried on both and prefer mac. > > > > The closest thing to TextMate I could find for pc was > Jedit. It has the > > ability to create snippet-like macros, but the code coloring > feature > > isn't > > near as in encompassing as TMs. > > > > > > -=R > > > > > > On 2/15/08 10:21 AM, "liquid_rails" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
