Your fav non-MS Dev environment

JerryMungo

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I'm keen to hear everyone's favorite non-Microsoft development environment - please include target platform you use it for (web apps, native android, cross platform mobile, etc) as well as frameworks and languages.

E.g. Adobe Dreamweaver for HTML5, CSS, jQuery (xyz framework) web apps... Or Eclipse for native Android apps (Java)

Let's hear what you think the best is or who needs help finding a better platform.

Please no Visual Studio or derivatives... Mostly cos it's nothing new, we've all been there and done that.
 
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vim on Linux. I've always found the Linux IDEs to slow to a crawl for large C++ projects. I should probably give them a try again.
 
vim on Linux. I've always found the Linux IDEs to slow to a crawl for large C++ projects. I should probably give them a try again.

So what languages, target platform, frameworks?
 
So what languages, target platform, frameworks?

C, C++, Python and R. For Linux servers/clusters. No external frameworks, everything has been built in house.
 
C, C++, Python and R. For Linux servers/clusters. No external frameworks, everything has been built in house.

Nice, I'm interested in getting to know Django and looking for a good enviornment for rapid web dev using Django and python. Any recommendations?
 
Nice, I'm interested in getting to know Django and looking for a good enviornment for rapid web dev using Django and python. Any recommendations?

I haven't done anything web related in a long time, but I do use vim for Python. Syntax, highlighting, rudimentary completion, etc.
 
IntelliJ and its derivatives(android studio, phpstorm)
 
PyCharm as the IDE (best ide for python + django/or any of other big web frameworks imho) , doing Django-Python in it.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

This is on both Linux and Windows , but being in a MS centric corporate environment i basically deploy to Apache running on Windows Servers, which works just fine. Also using MS SQL Server as the backend with Django, which again, works just fine, but probably not the best to start with (MySQL/SQLite has more tutorials and info).

Also, if you are interested in Python and Django and you want a kickstart, look into the Bitnami Djangostack : https://bitnami.com/stack/django

This gives you all the components needed to get your dev + server environment off the ground. I'm talking Apache + MySQL + PostGres + Python + Django components all installed in one go. No fiddling with configs and loose components to install. Of course you don't need this, you can go the "install python" + "pip install django" + "download apache and install + config for django " + "download mysql and install + config " route too.
 
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+1 Jetbrains, was using phpstorm for php then moved over to webstorm to work with node.js on Windows.

Also notepad++
 
vim on Linux. I've always found the Linux IDEs to slow to a crawl for large C++ projects. I should probably give them a try again.

Second that, vi(m) is elegant, fast and effective. Not truly an IDE I.M.O. though.

EDIT: Just became aware of clewn: "Clewn implements full gdb support in the vim editor: breakpoints, watch variables, gdb command completion, assembly windows, etc."
 
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I'm using OSX host operating system but dev in vagrant running in Ubuntu.

Develop for LAMP and Python.

Editors: Fully licenced PHPStorm & PyCharm

Command line: Nano (don't laugh), VIM

I only use my Sublime2 when I need to cleanup some data.
 
PyCharm as the IDE (best ide for python + django/or any of other big web frameworks imho) , doing Django-Python in it.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

This is on both Linux and Windows , but being in a MS centric corporate environment i basically deploy to Apache running on Windows Servers, which works just fine. Also using MS SQL Server as the backend with Django, which again, works just fine, but probably not the best to start with (MySQL/SQLite has more tutorials and info).

Also, if you are interested in Python and Django and you want a kickstart, look into the Bitnami Djangostack : https://bitnami.com/stack/django

This gives you all the components needed to get your dev + server environment off the ground. I'm talking Apache + MySQL + PostGres + Python + Django components all installed in one go. No fiddling with configs and loose components to install. Of course you don't need this, you can go the "install python" + "pip install django" + "download apache and install + config for django " + "download mysql and install + config " route too.

Nice info, Ta!
 
Eclipse for simple applications like nfc card readers.
 
Licensed PhpStorm.

On the text editor side sometimes Atom to open a quick file outside of a project. NotePad++ for general use. Ultraedit when dealing with huge datafiles and fixed width data (which has been quite a while).
 
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