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Poll HN: IDE (eclipse) or plain editor (vim, emacs) ?

3 points by keefe ↗ HN
I recently got into a discussion about whether using an IDE really speeds up development time. If you were confronted with a large project and barring organizational constraints, do you believe using an IDE (Visual Studio, Eclipse) will make you significantly more productive than a good editor (vim, emacs) ? I separated the options out to be language specific, so select your language of expertise.

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asimjalis
I'm also curious about Python, Objective C and C#.
Zev
I generally use Xcode + IB if I'm doing anything complex with ObjC. Though, If I'm just doing a one-off command line app with ObjC alone for whatever reason or need to make a quick edit to a file, I'll use TextMate instead.
doubleyooexwhy
No. All I need for C is my emacs, compiler, and terminal, and I'm good to go.
kqr2
Also, curious about people who do Flex development.
keefe
I do flex development as well and I think flexbuilder is the only real choice
hs
i don't use those languages and i use vim

i still believe touch typing (10 fingers + cartoon characters) is often taken for granted

how many of your bugs stem from typo?

SwellJoe
I dunno who Rudy is, but I use an editor (vim) for all languages.
lastkarrde
Netbeans 6.5 for large PHP projects, vim for quick fixes and Gedit + plugins for small/medium projects.