Looking for a new IDE

[SecretCode]

I used to use Delphi. Good IDE once augmented by some add-ins. But I'm not keen to mess around with it any longer.

I'm looking for a new, good, free IDE (that runs on Winderz) ... and obviously a language that is not Pascal. Could do Java, C#, C++ perhaps, and I have some experience of Perl and PHP. I'd like to learn one IDE and be able to try out several languages.

I'm looking at Eclipse - which seems to have modules for just about every language - and Netbeans - which if I understand right is focused on Java but has some other abilities. The Visual Studio Express offerings look interesting too.

Anyone care to recommend some favourites?

 

[koffiejunkie]

I'm no programmer but my programming buddies generally rave about Eclipse

 

[Andre]

Just downloaded the Visual Studio Express stuff a few days ago (all free) and am liking it so far. The current 2008 version seems much more stable than the last version I tried.

 

[semiautomatix]

I'd go with Eclipse.

 

[SilverNodashi]

Eclipse is good, especially if you want to go cross platform, and work with multiple languages. And it's free

 

[willirob]

Eclipse is good (JAVA).

Netbeans has the Mattise gui builder which is a major plus for App development

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

+1 for Eclipse.

Plug-ins for absolutely everything you can imagine, even Ruby on Rails and the like.

 

[SecretCode]

Eclipse it is then. Thanks all