Ask HN: Best IDE for Working on Surface Pro 3?

6 points by passive 11y ago ↗ HN

I really like the Surface Pro 3 hardware, and it seems quite possible for there to be an IDE that will look good at the odd resolution and maybe even handle touch events well. I've only tried Brackets and PyCharm so far, but the former failed both miserably, while the latter looks super pixelated, but touch is reasonably well supported. I know I'm a tiny fraction of the development market, but maybe there's a graphical toolkit out there that is handling this already, and I just need to find an IDE built in it?

Thanks.

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passive 11y ago ↗

Ok, trying out WingIDE now, and it's definitely a step up from PyCharm. Touch support is still not great, but the text is crisp almost everywhere. Now to figure out how to use it....

IMcD23 11y ago ↗

Microsoft Visual Studio 14 CTP (http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-14...) supports touch for scrolling, pinch-to-zoom, tap-and-hold for context menus, double-tap for word selection, and line selection by tapping in the margin.

orand 11y ago ↗

Thinking outside the box (pun intended), how about Cloud9? https://c9.io/