What IDE do you windows users think we should 'standardise'?

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What IDE do you windows users think we should 'standardise'?

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Well im 90% done writing up a howto for windows users to get a dev environment up and running. One problem I'm having is what IDE I should recommend people install and use. Obviously some of us will have our personal favorites and thats fine but we will have a lot of people new to programming and will want a easy to use and lightweight IDE to get them up and running. I personally use Textpad for small projects and have used Programmers Notepad for some AVR programming. Another option is to use the popular Dev-C++ that many people seem to favour.

So my question is what do you think is the best way to go? Out of the three i mentioned above or from something that you recommend. Put in your suggestions and reasons for them and I'll get this thing finally posted so people can start programming.

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Re: What IDE do you windows users think we should 'standardise'?

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Something small and light so people don't go through a 100mb download to find they hate it...!

Personally, I use http://www.jedit.org - platform independant!
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Re: What IDE do you windows users think we should 'standardise'?

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In terms of IDE's Eclipse is hard to beat, however, it is not light weight, but no TRUE IDE is really. Until about 1.5yrs ago, I used VIM/vi exclusively for all my dev, but it's just not sufficient for a complex project really. Some sort of tabbed editor is a good intermediate way to go. Jedit looks nice :-)

editor + build env = success

from there, the sky is the limit.

I have no recommendation for an editor, as it's a fairly personal thing. Console VIM and Eclipse work exceptionally well for me though, and both are available on all major platforms.

emacs is another option worth noting.

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