What Mac IDE Do You Personally Recommend?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by learnwebsitedesigncom, Jun 9, 2013.

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    What Mac IDE do you personally recommend? I'm using Netbeans but I'm not liking it too much.
     
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  2. ryan_uk

    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    What don't you like about NetBeans and which languages do you want it for? It might help people suggest a good one for you.
     
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  3. learnwebsitedesigncom

    learnwebsitedesigncom Active Member

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    I want to code in javascript/jquery and php.

    I don't like is how creating a simple file is not straight forward. I like working within it when working with an existing file, for example one that I've downloaded from a server.
     
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    learnwebsitedesigncom Active Member

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    I really don't like netbeans at the moment.
     
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  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Zend Studio is what I use... only IDE I really have liked (I've tried tons), and I use it just fine on my Mac.
     
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    learnwebsitedesigncom Active Member

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    I'm using TextWrangler (free) for now. I'm pretty sure I'll try most of them sooner or later though. Thanks
     
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Honestly on the Mac you could do a LOT worse than textWrangler. Personally? I don't like "IDE's" as most of their crap just gets in the damned way... but I'm the same about code editors where things like tabbed editing, the illegible acid trip of color syntax highlighting, annoying time wasting garbage like auto-complete or WORSE, code completion (which I spend more time correcting than I'd have spent just writing things properly)... they all do little to help and in general just piss me off. That's why on Winblows my editor of choice is Flo's Notepad2. (and I've gone so far as to run XP in VirtualBox 'seamless mode' just to have it in OSuX or Linsux)

    When it comes to HTML/CSS/JS if REAL testing should be done in REAL browsers, what the hell point does some fat bloated 'IDE' nonsense even SERVE?!? I say the same thing about PHP -- if you 'need' some form of IDE or RAD, and they provide actual tangible benefits, you are probably doing things ALL WRONG.
     
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    I'd recommend Sublime Text 2. It's not really an IDE, but it does have a lot of features.
     
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