Re: POLL: Which IDE do you use to develop PHP?
Mxsmanic wrote:[color=blue]
> It's interesting that almost everyone responding to this poll is using
> nothing more than a text editor (or a fancy text editor at most).
> Someone must be buying all those bloated IDEs out there; if it's not
> hardcore Web developers, who is it?
>
> I've always preferred to keep things simple, and it reassures me that
> I'm not alone in this. HTML and its breathren were designed to be easy
> to write and maintain with simple tools, so I've never understood why
> anyone would drop hundreds of dollars on bloated front ends that hide
> the real code (and may even make it inaccessible), complicate both
> development and maintenance, and bloat the final Web pages so that they
> execute a hundred times more slowly than if they were written in
> Notepad.
>[/color]
I agree that it is best to keep things simple. I do my
development using vim on Linux and run my code on XP, Linux, and
Solaris.
I find that it is quicker and easier to cut and paste and global
edits using vi then to use a point and click, drag and drop
editor.
I know that lots of people use the bloated tools and I suspect
that it is either because it was easy to find an "IDE for
Idiots" or a "Learn IDE in 24 hours" book somewhere for whatever
IDE they are using or because they don't know how to program and
don't want to know.
Jerry
Mxsmanic wrote:[color=blue]
> It's interesting that almost everyone responding to this poll is using
> nothing more than a text editor (or a fancy text editor at most).
> Someone must be buying all those bloated IDEs out there; if it's not
> hardcore Web developers, who is it?
>
> I've always preferred to keep things simple, and it reassures me that
> I'm not alone in this. HTML and its breathren were designed to be easy
> to write and maintain with simple tools, so I've never understood why
> anyone would drop hundreds of dollars on bloated front ends that hide
> the real code (and may even make it inaccessible), complicate both
> development and maintenance, and bloat the final Web pages so that they
> execute a hundred times more slowly than if they were written in
> Notepad.
>[/color]
I agree that it is best to keep things simple. I do my
development using vim on Linux and run my code on XP, Linux, and
Solaris.
I find that it is quicker and easier to cut and paste and global
edits using vi then to use a point and click, drag and drop
editor.
I know that lots of people use the bloated tools and I suspect
that it is either because it was easy to find an "IDE for
Idiots" or a "Learn IDE in 24 hours" book somewhere for whatever
IDE they are using or because they don't know how to program and
don't want to know.
Jerry
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