IDE of the Year

sekelsenmat · 02-01-2006, 07:53 AM

I ended up voting for Kylix, but I really wanted to vote for Lazarus. Please add it on the options.

It is a fully RAD IDE, the sucessor of Kylix. Also multiplatform (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Windows CE, Mac OS X, ...) and open source.

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_%28software%29

crabboy · 02-01-2006, 09:29 AM

If KDevelop wins again this year, I'll barf all over my keyboard. Bunches of weenies just vote for it because of the 'K' even though they've never used it.

Eclipse is miles ahead!!!

stevietheman · 02-01-2006, 10:54 AM

Well, for me anyway. 2005 was the first year that found Eclipse to provide the functionality I personally needed from an IDE so that I wouldn't have to pay for one any longer.

Cheers to the Eclipse team! (and the PHPEclipse devs as well)

On edit: I'm now in the process of moving all my development from Zend Studio to Eclipse, and loving it!

stevietheman · 02-01-2006, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sekelsenmat

I ended up voting for Kylix, but I really wanted to vote for Lazarus. Please add it on the options.

I'll have to seriously check Lazarus out. I would really like to leverage my many years of Delphi experience without having to play with the abandoned Kylix.

ionu · 02-01-2006, 12:42 PM

I use zend, it is kind of slow, but very good for php aplications

mrjshum · 02-01-2006, 01:05 PM

voting for eclipse...
made the switch this year from netbeans for java development.

jctaborda · 02-01-2006, 02:41 PM

I would vote for lazarus. Please add it to the list

It has made a terrific progress during last year.

sdexp · 02-01-2006, 04:17 PM

Isn't this question more like "What is your favorite programming language?"

I find it hard to compare certain IDEs which I have not ever even used because I don't program in the languages they compile for.

stupendo44 · 02-01-2006, 08:05 PM

I would say REALBasic. Please add it to the list.

NomadX · 02-01-2006, 09:18 PM

Call me crazy, or call me old fashioned, but I'd realy love to see RHIDE ported to linux... but then the first code I ever saw was from the borland compiler that rhide tries to look like... nothing else seemed natural after that..

jtshaw · 02-02-2006, 03:42 PM

It's easy..

My perfect IDE would contain direct access to vim as an editor, gdb (ddd in some cases), and man.... wait... does that make a gnu screen session coupled with bash an IDE?

crabboy · 02-02-2006, 03:58 PM

Atlanta traffic getting to you jt?

Don't get me wrong, I still use both vi and gdb, but you can't compare them to eclipse, or any good IDE for that matter.

Eclipse gives you realtime syntax and type checking; method browsing; auto code formatters; refactoring method and variable names. It makes coding so much quicker.

jtshaw · 02-02-2006, 04:39 PM

Yes.. the Atlanta traffic is getting to me

I agree Eclipse is pretty good for Java projects. (Though last time I used it with a large java project it spent most of the day loading or crashing) But since most of my day to day coding is straight C very few of the things that it does actually help me.

I also should have added indent to the list of programs I use all the time... though that only comes into play when somebody that doesn't know how to use a decent editor edits code in my CVS Repository