Do you use an IDE or a text editor

[Albatross]

If you are a student JetBrains products are free.

 

[paperwastage]

There's a 20% off code floating around for Jetbrains products, probably going to get Intellij for my personal use

Intellij for java/python, emacs on linux headless servers, notepad++/emacs+cygwin on windows for raw/other (large) files that can't be opened via a GUI IDE

 

[purbeast0]

sublime is a very good text editor and good if you are only doing like javascript or html, but for backend stuff it wouldn't be useful without a way to debug.

i'm a big fan of intellij right now. been using it for a while and love it now that i'm used to it. it's the speediest ide i've ever used too.

netbeans is my 2nd favorite.

then you have visual studio, then xcode, and eclipse is a LLOOONNNNGGGG way away as being the far worst ide i've ever used.

 

[Spungo]

Notepad++ for Perl. Having different colors for keywords, variables, and comments helps a lot. I also like the spell checking. I wonder how many programs were broken in the past due to spelling errors.
my $calender->{Day} = 'Monday'; :sneaky:

 

[sourceninja]

I'm a text editor guy (w/ syntax highlighting and auto indentation). Anything else just gets in the way for me.

The only exception is in very large projects. There I like having tools for refactoring.