Best IDE for CI

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simshaun;

"...I think you have the wrong perception of what an IDE is. It sounds like you are mistaking an IDE for a WYSIWYG editor or possibly a Wizard of some sort.

An IDE is hand-coding. IDE’s aid you in so many ways that it becomes highly inefficient to not use one. Integrated Code-completion, SVN, Debugging, FTP, Syntax Highlighting, Snippets, and smart-indention features are essential and are major contributing factors to how efficient a programmer is.

RE: "Integrated Code-completion, SVN, Debugging, FTP, Syntax Highlighting, Snippets, and smart-indention features..."

You are correct, in that I do not consider those to be IDE's. However, that is not a "wrong perception" :long: . And no, I don't code on a manual typewriter, even if I could find one with built-in modem... :lol:

What you list are tools-of-the-trade, utilities, programming applications ( read: 'good things' ), like CI itself, for instance.

What I'm dis-recommending, are Integrated Development Environments, that is, attempts to be the total_programming_environment, a do-all and be-all approach.

Pick and choose tools that work together or apart, but which get the job done.

Craftsmen, such as you and I, need more than a "Multi-head, Aerodynamically sculpted, Gold-plated Hammer/IDE" (Trademarked, Patent pending, waiting for goverment funding.) to build products.