IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year
 

What is your IDE of choice?

--jeremy

I feel ok with BlueFish

I quite like Aptana Studio, if they would manage to sort out Syntax colorisation for php - it always looks broken

I love code::blocks for small projects, qtcreator for GUI development, and eclipse for large projects,
eclipse is the winner though

Geany

NetBeans
 

Love Netbeans, been using it for the last 3 years.

My vote is for Eclipse. It loves to consume memory, but it's well worth it.

I still make my websites with elvis (a vi clone). Nothing beats a simple text editor.

For more complex stuff, like web-based applications, I am forced to use an IDE. I've tried many and netbeans seems the one that is least annoying. I have no idea what the target audience is for Eclipse or Emacs: both just make me curse from start to finish. Not a single function/`feature' is in a spot where I would expect it.

I totally agree!

My IDE for all purposes, for all projects is urxvt/tmux/Vi(m), nothing else needed or wanted!

I use SciTE for web development and as a programming editor. I created a html.api file that brings up tooltip and auto-completion information for HTML tags. I can preview pages in a browser of my choice. I can also spell-check through SciTE using hunspell and it will check only the text and ignore the HTML tags.

I recently swapped to Kate after using Geany, I find the editor view marginally superior, split view works better for example, depends if I am using a GTK (Geany) based desktop or KDE (Kate), to which I use.

switching from emacs for all to netbeans for most
 

Using emacs as a long time unix user (I have even coded java in emacs for quite some time), I come to love netbeans-IDE.
I use it always for my java coding (SE,EE) and for php too. In particular the php support ie very good since 7.2 and we are at 7.4 now.

The extensibility of netbeans-IDE is a perfect match to the FOSS world and it is wonderful to be able to use the open-ide framework as the foundation of your own projects. The documentation is quite extensive, with a lot of tutorials and video intros on youtube.
Hope oracle will keep up the good work here.

Lazarus.

Lazarus

Lazarus

I assume the "Komodo" choice is Komodo Edit, not Komodo IDE (which is AFAIK not open source).

Komodo Edit is great on Windows, but the last time I used it on Linux (which was many years ago), it had absolutely horrid font rendering. I tried to do my own build but wasn't successful.

There are a lot of new accounts recommending Lazarus.

Im one of this new user. I do use lot of programation languages (from assembler to C++) and i realy prefer to develop in Pascal. And Lazarus has a fantastic code editor, the best for Pascal users. For graphic widgetsets, you have the choice of LCL (who links with GTK2 or Qt) or fpGUI or msei who are pure pascal widgetsets and links directly with X11.

Fair enough. I didn't realize there were so many Pascal programmers.

Lazarus truly is a marvelous piece of engineering. Truly worth a second and third look.

What I a am confused about is what it is doing in the Web Development category?!! Maybe I need to take another look. Are people actually developing web sites with Lazarus out there? Wouldn't surprise me. Using the Brook Framework maybe?

In fact, if you really consider what FredVs was pointing out about FPgui, shouldn't you add Lazarus to the "Window Manager of the Year"? Haha When it sinks in that you can program without Qt or Gtk or without even a window manager in FreePascal, and on top of that, via many different avenues (Fpgui, MseIDE, CustomDrawn etc). This means that your app, since you are doing all the drawing directly to X11 OR GDI, you can be confident your app looks the same wherever it is hosted.

Oh, and FredVs is one of the "pioneers" in this area, btw.

I wish I could vote for two. I love Lazarus for GUI programming, but Geany hits a sweet spot formerly held by SciTE for pure Pascal coding. Out of habit I use Nano for Bash scripting. That would probably qualify as a BAD habit ;)

Emacs!
 

I love Emacs, I'm relatively new to coding and when I looked at the main IDE's (meaning things like Kdevelop, Eclipse etc) I found myself just trying to learn the IDE rather than learning (in my case) C++, fired up Emacs and I'm coding away like a happy little code elf :)

Lazarus. Especially it's CodeTyphon incarnation.

Geany
 

I rarely use an IDE, but when I do, I prefer Geany. Use only directed. Please code responsibly.

Isn't Quanta Plus discontinued?

XCode

Lazarus IDE as Usual

From my experience, if I had to guess... the target audience for Eclipse is Winwoes Java coders who don't want to have to pay for a commercial Java IDE. Emacs as an IDE appeals to those already familiar with Emacs keybindings and willing to go the extra mile to tweak it to the requisites of the task/project at hand. Ditto for those using Vi/m. Indeed, the "Pragmatic Programmer" makes an excellent case for ditching fancy IDE's in favor of the latter.

I don't do much coding these days but was quite favorably impressed with Netbeans back when I was running Nevada and then OpenSolaris as my desktop. Post Oracle takeover, and the ensuing screwing, I came to distrust _anything_ out of Oracle, and presumed that, like OpenSolaris and a few other Sun FOSS offerings, that Oracle would eventually kill the project. Nice to hear Netbeans is alive and well. Will have to take a look.

Emacs but no vim? Do you seek battle?

I vote for eclipse, it likes to take up memory, but it is worth it, I do this without it:

void doSomething()
{
return someFloat;
}

Eclipse

Again, there's nothing decent anymore for website creation. I loved Quanta/Quanta+, but it's turned into some horrid beast that's absolutely useless to me or anyone else as far as I can tell.

Got to vote Emacs because it offers everything & the kitchen sink. If I were smarter, I could probably get it to do the dishes....

That said, Netbeans gets an honorable mention. Used to use Bluefish quite a bit but it doesn't seem to appeal to me much these days.

kate (ftom trinity desktop) or geany

Whoa, Emacs made a much more respectable showing here than I expected - not far behind Geany and Netbeans. Rock on! :)

I've used code::blocks for a while, and I'm okay with it.