Gregory Seidman
3/2/2006 1:03:00 PM
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:47:51PM +0900, Craig Demyanovich wrote:
[...]
} You've got to be kidding about VS.NET being the best IDE there is
} (unless you mean for .NET development)!
[...]
} Everyone I know who has experience in multiple environments with
} multiple tools has said VS.NET is far from the best IDE there is, and
} I agree more each day I use it. (I really miss IDEA [http://
} www.jetbrains.com]). On the contrary, I haven't heard or read about
} such experiences working with Ruby on Rails. (Maybe I should follow
} the Rails list closer, though). Strongly consider Rails.
I can't say I've tried every IDE out there, but I've tried a lot of them.
VS.NET is the *only* IDE I've ever used that I consider an improvement over
vim, make, and a commandline debugger. It isn't much of an improvement over
make, and I'd really like vim keybindings, but intellisense genuinely
increases my efficiency as a programmer. Also, its debugger is second to
none.
Yes, VS.NET is for .NET development. I know of no IDE that is not targetted
at a particular development platform, and .NET is its target platform. I
know, I know, Eclipse can be used for all sorts of languages. Great. It's
targetted at Java development, and while it may have plugins for other
platforms it remains primarily for Java development.
Also, I've suffered a variety of frustrations with VS.NET, and I wouldn't
dream of calling it bug-free. I have high hopes that VS.NET 2005 is better,
but 2003 has failed me a number of times in a number of ways. Then again,
so has every piece of software I've ever used, including Linux, vim, bash,
PuTTy, xchat, gaim, KDE, GNOME, even xterm. What I can say in favor of
VS.NET is what I said in the first paragraph: it's the only IDE I've ever
preferred to my trusty text editor, commandline build system, and
commandline debugger.
} Craig
--Greg