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View Poll Results: Which do you prefer IDE or Text Editor?
I'm just starting programming so I just want to see if you PREFER a text editor to an IDE. I felt that an IDE was overcomplicated for my purposes while Emacs or ViM are more simplistic, faster also Netbeans and Eclipse never seemed to work. As when compiling programs in them they failed but when using Emacs and ViM and gcc command line thing it succeeded
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I pretty much stick to Emacs for bigger projects, Nano for small things.
To be fair, though, I tend to do only basic programming, nothing professional just some things for classes and otherwise small utilities to make my own computing more efficient.
It's kinda an apples to apple pie comparison. Vim is my editor, and is just one piece of my development environment. There's also my toolchain, debugger, build system, shell.. They all already play nice together, no explicit "integration" needed or wanted.
I'm just starting programming so I just want to see if you PREFER a text editor to an IDE. I felt that an IDE was overcomplicated for my purposes while Emacs or ViM are more simplistic, faster also Netbeans and Eclipse never seemed to work. As when compiling programs in them they failed but when using Emacs and ViM and gcc command line thing it succeeded
Emacs simplistic? That's probably the last adjective I'd use to describe it
Like some other posters here, I use Emacs for bigger projects, and Vim for quick edits. Mind you, I haven't done a really big project yet.
I'm just starting programming so I just want to see if you PREFER a text editor to an IDE. I felt that an IDE was overcomplicated for my purposes while Emacs or ViM are more simplistic, faster also Netbeans and Eclipse never seemed to work. As when compiling programs in them they failed but when using Emacs and ViM and gcc command line thing it succeeded
IDE is a text editor. Anyway, Linux doesn't have Visual Studio (and alternatives weren't that good for me), so you will have to use text editor - jEdit/Kate/gEdit/vim, etc. General rule is that if you're serious about programming, you should be able to program in anything - with or without ide. It makes sense to learn vim - it is available nearly on all linux machines, and it is unlikely to be customized.
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Originally Posted by sycamorex
Like some other posters here, I use Emacs for bigger projects, and Vim for quick edits. Mind you, I haven't done a really big project yet.
//offtopic
How big a project should be for you to call it big? (kilobytes or lines of code)
How big a project should be for you to call it big? (kilobytes or lines of code)
I don't know what the criterion is - complexity, number of files and the lines of code? No idea..
Obviously it's a relative thing, but as programming is mostly my hobby, the projects I do are not that complex. You wouldn't call 100 line long bash scripts, or a simple website (html/css/some php and jquery) big, would you?
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