Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to develop without an IDE? Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:50:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7zTeebvKpIS8LVJ5OFDmwg"; logging-data="14859"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/fBwxRkyO/uNOQFX2mDgLfCdMq0quH+Wc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:FYT1ZlRusYAw/wS3HJRLKjN32UY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13828 On 4/23/2012 3:38 PM, Rui Maciel wrote: > Daniel Pitts wrote: > >> Why not use an IDE though? They provide so much! > > They also tend to be inferior in a considerable number of aspects, > particularly when compared with the features provided by some text editors. > Between being forced to stick with an IDE and managing the build process by > hand, the latter option sounds a lot better. Modern IDEs are far superior to any text editor. 10 years ago I was a vim (actually just vi) fan. No longer. The features provided by modern IDEs are leaps and bounds beyond what any text editor provides. If you can show me a text editor that is superior in any significant regard to my IDE, I'd like to see what those features are, and know which editor provides them. Productivity is important to me, so if there's a productivity tool out there that I'm missing, I'd like to know. (And I'd like actual objective features, please. If this degenerates into trolling editor wars... well, you'll know when I start ignoring your posts. "Don't feed the trolls.")