Which IDE do you use?

[merrillmck]

Which Integrated Development Environment do you use for your web programming? And the poll question is generalized as to whether your web programming (the majority of it) is done using a WYSIWYG tool, a text editor, or a general programming IDE.

WYSIWYG - Dreamweaver, Frontpage, or any product where you're not editing a markup or programming language (this would include MS Word saveas .html)

Any Text Editor - Notepad, emacs, nedit, ...

General programming IDE - Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, NetBeans, ...

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If you're using a text editor or programming IDE, what language do you spend the majority of your time editing when it comes to your webpage development? PHP, HTML, Java, Javascript, ASP.NET, ASP, C#, Visual Basic, ...

[danprobo]

I'm using MS Visual Studio Express Edition (freeware) and i already created some small tools with that, i still learning :-)

C# is my favorites programming language.

[galaxyAbstractor]

I usually use Netbeans for Java, and dreamweaver for PHP, HTML and CSS (not the WYSIWYG part).

Some ppl (like the entire Java IRC channel) says that you never should use an IDE to program java, that you should use notepad or w/e, but I don't understand them really, an IDE is so much easier to work in, like that it has built-in debugger and tells you if you write anything wrong or do a spelling error etc

[fguy64]

I'm mostly into Java, I also do some HTML. NetBeans is pretty slick, but like most IDE's it is very resource hungry. On my older PIII-733 with 512MB of RAM, it is slow as molasses, so I refuse to use it. I like an openSource program colled Notepad++, which is basically a deluxe text editor. It does indenting and syntax hi-lighting, macros, and a few other good things. Maybe when my PIII finally dies I will get a more powerful machine that can handle a full-featured IDE.

[merrillmck]

I'm currently doing most of my work in C# with MS Visual Studio but that's mostly because I transitioned from doing a lot of non-web work using C++ and MS Visual Studio.

Going from MS Visual Studio C++ to PHP looks like a big scary leap.

[farscapeone]

I use Dreamweaver but I manual code everything. I don't use it as a WYSIWYG editor.

P.S. I think there's a similar thread somewhere around here.

[alexandgruntz]

I alternate between Notepad and Notepad++. I use Frontpage for complex stuff however.

Since I only know HTML and some Javascript, that's what I use it for. :D

[Livewire]

I need an option for "Mixture/Other"; I tend to use DreamWeaver/Photoshop to get the basic idea of how I want it to look down, then Notepad++ and XAMPP to build it myself so I know the code is as light as it can be while still being standards compliant


Kinda brutal to do though; almost seems backwards to use a WYSIWYG editor to get the page, then go back and recode it from the ground up on your own. Then again, when it seems half the time the hand-coded page is 1/5th the size and easier to edit/commented within an inch of its life, I can see why I do it that way

[vekou]

well, you specifically said WEB development. so i'm using WYSIWYG IDE, Dreamweaver to be exact. but i use eclipse sometimes when i write code for AJAX using Google Web Toolkit.

[rstat1]

Specifically for web dev..I use Expression Web, since I got free (legal) license for from MS. Used to use Dreamweaver, but found it to bulky and annoying for my use. Expression Web is lightweight and a speed demon.

Rarely if ever use the design part, because usually my pages are divided up into 3 parts, header, body and footer which basically makes the design view useless.