Programmers! Post your favorite IDEs!

[johnnyloadproductions]

Let's see them! What extensions?

[raymor]

vim
Today I used hexedit to modify some software, so does that count?

[Linguist]

vim, ultraedit, coda... depending on the mood and the OS

[edgeprod]

You're going to get a flood of idiots trying to tell you that they're somehow better off with Notepad and is ilk, eschewing the integrated file management, transfers at the touch of a button, class exploration, variable and function cmpletion, and a host of other benefits. Some may even try to convince you that using an IDE means you will write poor quality code, that the IDE will somehow be doing the coding, or any number of misdirected ideas and drivel.

Ignore them, if you can. Most of the real coders do. Many of the people who say such things likely haven't even tried a modern IDE.

In any event, to answer your question, PHP Ed is my weapon of choice lately.

[V_RocKs]

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[Thomas007]

You're going to get a flood of idiots trying to tell you that they're somehow better off with Notepad and is ilk, eschewing the integrated file management, transfers at the touch of a button, class exploration, variable and function cmpletion, and a host of other benefits. Some may even try to convince you that using an IDE means you will write poor quality code, that the IDE will somehow be doing the coding, or any number of misdirected ideas and drivel.

Ignore them, if you can. Most of the real coders do. Many of the people who say such things likely haven't even tried a modern IDE.

In any event, to answer your question, PHP Ed is my weapon of choice lately.

I agree with him.
After having tried Zend Studio and Eclipse, which I both was happy with for a long time I have used Netbeans the last year. It's for PHP coding.

[grumpy]

phped, loving it and a good deal now.

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[Brujah]

I like Coda, but lately I use Sublime Text 2 for most things. They're not full-blown smart IDEs, but I'll sometimes finish up in PhpStorm.
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/features/index.html

[Operator]

You're going to get a flood of idiots trying to tell you that they're somehow better off with Notepad and is ilk, eschewing the integrated file management, transfers at the touch of a button, class exploration, variable and function cmpletion, and a host of other benefits. Some may even try to convince you that using an IDE means you will write poor quality code, that the IDE will somehow be doing the coding, or any number of misdirected ideas and drivel.

Ignore them, if you can. Most of the real coders do. Many of the people who say such things likely haven't even tried a modern IDE.

In any event, to answer your question, PHP Ed is my weapon of choice lately.

php was written without an ide.

[Zoxxa]

I have been in love with textmate for a couple years now. It's light weight, simple project browsing, and I love setting snippets and triggers for them. Most IDE's kind of annoy me with the insane highlighting and little popup windows telling me about functions I don't need. Since I don't have a bloated IDE baby sitting me the whole time, I have 95% of the functions built in my brain now and have no need for reminders.

[HomerSimpson]

Notepad++

[mafia_man]

PHPStorm because it's got a great debugger.

Xcode for iOS stuff because it's free and amazing but the only choice really.

Textmate for Rails.

[Operator]

Notepad++

They have native macros/regex and good search and replace overall. I'll use it for that alone. Lots of examples too, good because I'm lazy, see sig:

[symtab]

I use mcedit and vim.

[fris]

phpdesigner is good

[k0nr4d]

I use dreamweaver, strictly in code view. I don't think it's the best by any means, but i've used it for years and it's just what i'm used to.

[raymor]

You're going to get a flood of idiots trying to tell you that they're somehow better off with Notepad and is ilk, eschewing the integrated file management, transfers at the touch of a button, class exploration, variable and function cmpletion, and a host of other benefits. Some may even try to convince you that using an IDE means you will write poor quality code, that the IDE will somehow be doing the coding, or any number of misdirected ideas and drivel.

Ignore them, if you can. Most of the real coders do. Many of the people who say such things likely haven't even tried a modern IDE.

In any event, to answer your question, PHP Ed is my weapon of choice lately.

Don't underestimate a powerful text editor set up and used by someone who really knows it. I've tried out several IDEs and I've done significant work in Visual Studio, the king of IDEs. Only because a know vi so well, I can get more done faster in vim than any bloated IDE. Does your IDE automatically insert proper error handling for you? My text editor does.

Yes vi has been around since 1976. Did you know that in vi when I type "open " it automatically expands to a full open statement, with proper error handling like this?:

open( , "") or die "Could not open '': $!";

Similarly "while" auto expands to:

while () {

}

So those kinds of niceties are there, but coding is really mainly editing the code, which is text. Assuming you know the language and aren't spending a lot of time in the help, coding is 90% text editing. For text editing, nothing beats a great text editor.

[SmellyNose]

Coda!

[VladS]

Notepad mostly and from time to time, Notepad++.

[Klen]

Visual Studio for microsoft crap and netbeans for PHP.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Great responses. It all comes down to preference for some things and just picking something and running with it. I'll agree that an IDE is the way to go for a multitude of reasons, unless you're just doing a quick edit of a couple files.

Right now, dreamweaver is what I use for Web Dev. Works well enough.

[blogman9]

eclipse .

[barcodes]

I have used and like Dreamweaver, Coldfusion Builder, Eclipse

[Emil]

[AnalProbe]

Nano / Grep / Sed / Awk

[Mr Cheeks]

I like Coda, but lately I use Sublime Text 2 for most things. They're not full-blown smart IDEs, but I'll sometimes finish up in PhpStorm.
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/features/index.html

i like RubyMine from JetBrains too http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

[edgeprod]

php was written without an ide.

If this is true, remember that it also wasn't written in a web development language. Besides, some people walk to the store, others drive.

Don't underestimate a powerful text editor set up and used by someone who really knows it. I've tried out several IDEs and I've done significant work in Visual Studio, the king of IDEs. Only because a know vi so well, I can get more done faster in vim than any bloated IDE. Does your IDE automatically insert proper error handling for you? My text editor does.

Yes vi has been around since 1976. Did you know that in vi when I type "open " it automatically expands to a full open statement, with proper error handling like this?:

open( , "") or die "Could not open '': $!";

Similarly "while" auto expands to:

while () {

}

So those kinds of niceties are there, but coding is really mainly editing the code, which is text. Assuming you know the language and aren't spending a lot of time in the help, coding is 90% text editing. For text editing, nothing beats a great text editor.

That's very true. phpEd, what I use for PHP, is pretty much a text editor. Keyboard shortcuts for most of the things I do, auto-complete, auto-expanding, automatic indenting, etc. But then it also handles my directory trees, uploading, entire-path searching, etc.

[Operator]

OpenCube