
It has a feature similar to Visual Studio’s Intellisense that displays class and method information while typing. Eclipse is a robust Java development environment that has all the features I need to build large applications. Where: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada I spent more time diagnosing problems with this IDE than writing actual code. It has too many features, and some of them are unstable. It never lets me down, except when I need to use Lisp (then I switch to Emacs). I use Vi for almost everything, from scripting to C/C++ to Java. I can understand an IDE that wants to make it more like command-line programming, but this one misses the target.įlavor: Develops on Windows/Linux for Windows/Linux The use of an IDE is a bad thing however, BlueJ manages to make it even worse. If you can’t write a program in your favorite language without the use of an IDE, you are not a programmer. I enjoy GCC because each of its compilers does exactly what it is told-nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately, we can show only a snippet of those opinions on this page, so please visit to read more and chime in on what you think of these tools. It’s also interesting to witness the diversity of viewpoints on any one product. But somehow they all coexist (albeit not necessarily peacefully), fulfilling a variety of needs for developers from here to Timbuktu. It’s great to see the breadth of tools represented: some proprietary, some open source some from large players in the software market, others from smaller shops or collectives of developers. Every month we ask you, and you tell us, what’s on your hard drive.
