IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are computer programs that facilitate efficient software development by providing features beyond those of a simple text editor.
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Writing programs without graphical IDE
I am not sure if this is even possible but I have watched a few videos with programming examples where it seems like the program is being written in some kind of command prompt rather than a nice ...
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Should every member of a team use the same IDE?
Do you think it makes sense to enforce that every member of a team must use the same IDE?
For instance all engineers that are already on the team use IDE X. Two new engineers come and want to use IDE ...
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Key bindings war in my brain
How many key bindings are there in your brain? I personally use Intellij Idea as my primary IDE for development, but sometimes switch to Eclipse and Netbeans a bit, and sometimes I use ...
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In-Browser code editors
I just received my ChromeOS Notebook and have been looking around for an in-browser IDE/Text editor. I was wondering if anyone has come across any that they liked / showed potential.
I would like to ...
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What are your thoughts on online editors? [closed]
Currently, I'm an Emacs user, (I'm used to the commands, and I work in a bunch of different languages day-to-day, one of which is Common Lisp, so it's the natural choice), but a recent-ish talk by ...
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Best IDE for HTML, CSS, and Javascript for mac [closed]
I'm currently looking to move to using an IDE for web development. The options I'm considering are:
Aptana Studio
Coda
Expresso
Please base your answers on the following criteria, in descending ...
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Is Visual Studio just an IDE?
For Windows Development I mean.
Looking over other questions there are alternatives to VS, but they seem to be web based ones, which is fine, or you could program an entire .net website in notepad, ...
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Moving Old Projects To Newer IDE's and Libraries
At work we have a few older projects that are stuck on .NET 1.1 and VS 2003. While these are probably to much work now to move forward I'm wondering if the effort to keep our newer projects up to date ...
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C++ code navigation on OS X
Other than using Emacs / Vim with ctags or cscope or both, are there alternatives to C++ code navigation of an existing code base? I used to use Source Insight on Windows and it worked for me fairly ...
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How is IntelliJ better than Eclipse?
I know there have been questions like What is your favorite editor/IDE?, but none of them have answered this question: Why spend the money on IntelliJ when Eclipse is free?
I'm personally a big ...
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What justifies the use of an IDE versus a standard editor?
I find myself using my text editor of choice (vim, nano, gedit, pick your poison) much more often than any IDE as of late.
After noticing my ide shortcuts getting dusty I started to think about ...
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IDE Generated Code
Many IDEs have the ability to spit out automatically written pieces of code. For example, it might generate a getter/setter pair for you. I wonder whether it isn't an attempt to work around some flaws ...
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I use an IDE (Eclipse) to develop software. Why should I switch to vim or emacs? [closed]
My day job is java/web developer. I have been using eclipse for ~5years. I think its excellent and I also use Webstorm for javascript and html/jsp.
I do on occasion need to ssh into server and ...
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What keymap do you prefer in ReSharper?
I am using ReSharper since version 3 and I always used InteliJ Idea/Resharper 2.x keymap schema. Recently I have learned Ilya's Visual Studio keymap. They each have advantages.
What keymap do you ...
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ReSharper's effect on coding interviews
Anyone who has used R# or CodeRush knows how fast you can put together simple constructs (and refactor complex ones) with a simple keyboard shortcut. However, do these productivity plugins cause a ...
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What is a good lightweight IDE that performs well in an Xterm window?
Our group is currently has a solaris server with eclipse installed on it. However, we need to run this from out desks using an xterm window. There is a delay with every action due to the weight of ...
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Practical Meta Programming System (MPS)
This is in regards to Meta Programming System or MPS by JetBrains. Thus far, from my efforts to learn how to use MPS, I have only learned its basic purpose and that it is very complex.
Is MPS worth ...
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How can current IDEs improve the development experience? What secondary tools should be primary?
A modern IDE wouldn't be taken seriously if it didn't have a good editor with syntax highlighting, comprehensive warnings, and a source-level debugger. And there are many more tools/IDE features that ...
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Does giving a developer a slower development machine result in faster/more efficient code?
Suppose I give my developers a screaming fast machine. WPF-based VS2010 loads very quickly. The developer then creates a WPF or WPF/e application that runs fine on his box, but much slower in the ...
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Good intellisense extension for Visual Studio? [closed]
Are there any good extensions for Visual Studio that build on Intellisense and assist with code-completion? I've heard that refactor is awesome, but does anyone have any experience with any others? VS ...
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Have you tried Chronon the Java “Time Travelling Debugger” — if so, is it worth trying and why?
First heard about it from Google Tech Talks, back 2009 when it was called Silver Bullet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpfmKIxusZY
It's now called, Chronon...
http://chrononsystems.com/
"Sounds" ...
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Why are HDL IDEs so user-unfriendly when compared to generic-purpose language (like Java/C) IDEs?
I've been programming for a while now, and I've covered a lot of languages. And this trend that I noticed is that all HDL languages have so painful IDEs!
In general, any development environment ...
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What features in Eclipse is not available in Visual Studio? [closed]
I have done much development in Java using Eclipse, and now I have started to use Visual Studio for .NET development. So far I find the IDEs to be able to do the same things, but just different.
What ...
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Which are the options available for PHP IDEs for windows [closed]
I am new to PHP (Have good j2EE and ASP .net experience) and now want to kick start developing a simple website (A database connection and simple inserts is the max technical stuff i plan right now). ...
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What is the best IDE for Scala? [closed]
I tried programming Scala in Netbeans and Eclipse, but it is not what I'm looking for. In Netbeans suggestions for method names etc. are not working. In Eclipse I can't go to some classes sources by ...
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Can I do anything to improve performance in VS 2010?
I'm using VS 2010 since we're developing an app in .Net 4 and the performance is driving me crazy. It's mostly bad when I don't view the IDE for a while (such as when I get pulled away for a help desk ...
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What are the most impressive tricks an IDE could pull off with the code? [closed]
Modern IDEs have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to help with code writing, refactoring, searching. All those are very helpful, but rarely any of them looks like a real "magic" and makes me think ...
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What counts as an IDE?
Recently reading the question What languages do you use without an IDE? One question asked in a few answers was "is Notepad++ and IDE?"
One answers to the original question said "None, I use vim...", ...
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What are the most popular IDEs per language? [closed]
This has nothing to do with having a favourite editor or anything like that. I was just wondering, per language, what are the most popular Integrated Development Environments? Maybe a top 2-3 if there ...
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Does anyone prefer proportional fonts? [closed]
I was reading the wikipedia article on programming style and noticed something in an argument against vertically aligned code:
Reliance on mono-spaced font; tabular
formatting assumes that the ...
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Is anybody using graphical tools for doing software development? [closed]
Is anybody out there using graphical tools for doing software development instead of (or in addition to) writing code? Yahoo! Pipes would be a simple example.
People have been talking about ...
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Most useful features of VIM that aren't standard in a IDE [closed]
I'm considering whether I should start using VIM again instead of an IDE. What are the most useful features of VIM that aren't standard in an IDE?
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What IDE features would you miss most if you didn't have them? [closed]
What features of your IDE would you miss most if you didn't have? Please list one one feature or group of related features per answer.
