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

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:58 am
by slacker.cam
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.

Cheers guys

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

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:20 am
by sry_not4sale
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!

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

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:14 pm
by Fred
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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