What do you use to code?

[Akito]

I currently use homesite 5.5, but am looking for something better. Macromedia is pretty much dropping homesite, which is a shame- hs is awesome.

[Ragnar]

Notepad

[Sprung]

Notepad

Seconded

[Paul Miller]

Bleh, get gVim for windows. Infinitely better. It really depends what you are coding... if it's Java, get an IDE, like Eclipse (Trust me, it's THAT good, and free).

[nek_]

ALT+R is where I do my coding. Although we call it scripting. I guess you need to be a part of the snazzy ALT+R crowd.

[Xaenn]

Bleh, get gVim for windows. Infinitely better. It really depends what you are coding... if it's Java, get an IDE, like Eclipse (Trust me, it's THAT good, and free).

I wonder if eclipse has come a long way since I used it two years ago. Because all I remember at the time was that it was ungodly bloated...Perhaps the fact they didn't teach us how to use it worth shit would be part of it too.

gVim is very nice, it'll just take you some time to learn how to use it properly. It's worth the time though.

[Chaos]

I'm always using Editplus.

[GODJonez]

JCreator 3.0 LE. Still using that.

[Noxious Ninja]

Notepad2 + Firefox with the Web Developer toolbar.

Long live CSS.

[Paul Miller]

I wonder if eclipse has come a long way since I used it two years ago. Because all I remember at the time was that it was ungodly bloated...Perhaps the fact they didn't teach us how to use it worth shit would be part of it too.

gVim is very nice, it'll just take you some time to learn how to use it properly. It's worth the time though.

It has come a long way. It's still Java based and pretty bad on the resources, but it is absolutely incredible what you can do, and all the plugins are cool too.

[Xaenn]

It has come a long way. It's still Java based and pretty bad on the resources, but it is absolutely incredible what you can do, and all the plugins are cool too.

Hmm, just out of interest. What kind of features are we looking at? Sadly in our stupid class they never even taught us how to use it's debugging features...

I remember it lagging the hell out of those Red Hat machines we were using. Of course it was Red Hat, so it should be of little surprise.

[Paul Miller]

It runs fine on my P4 2.4GHz machine with a gig of RAM... so I can't say how far it will scale down. The jUnit testing builtin is absolutely brilliant... makes jUnit infinitely easier to work with. You can get plugins for C++ and C#, a find bugs program that detects simple bugs as you write the code, and a host of other things I've yet to or hardly explored. It's been a while since I've had to code Java (or so it feels, as it's only been a month and a half), so I'll have to get back to you on more stuff.

[Xaenn]

Hmm, I have no real desire to code java anymore, but it is still interesting.

[brit]

I use notepad2 and jEdit. JEdit, I'm more familiar with since I was using it back in my Linux days (two weeks ago), but NP2 is looking pretty good right now. I like the simple stuff. Plus, since I don't code for IE, I need a coder with an integrated gecko browser. There are none as far as I know. So I just use my own, you know?

[Drageuth]

I use a program called HandyHTML Studio 2. It's basically a suped up version of Notepad, but it keeps things color-co-ordinated and whatnot so that it's easier to spot mistakes, and you can change the colors if you don't like what they have set for you. There is also a menu-tree of different attributes and whatnot for every HTML code as well as CSS parameters, and it keeps built-in functions such as PHP's "echo" or "sort" or "explode" set to specific colors, so that you can tell if you've missed a letter or didn't enter something right or not, or if it's a recently-defined function.


Yadda yadda yadda... it's good. Costs about $30...