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Ask HN: What Is The Best Free IDE?

by tronium on 6/6/14, 12:54 AM with 10 comments

• by LarryMade2 on 6/7/14, 5:59 PM

  Check out Eclipse, its a great cross-platform IDE, some people don't like its speed as it is in Java, but it gets the job done.

  Though YMMV depending on what you code in. Some IDEs are better suited for certain languages than others.

  Best to start with a comparison page (link below) then google/ask questions once you get a list of what looks good.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_develo...

• by hibikir on 6/6/14, 12:57 AM

  We'd do better if you told us which languages you plan to work on. For instance, IntelliJ Idea, community edition, is a pretty strong contender, but it's at its best in JVM languages.

• by hackerboos on 6/6/14, 9:21 AM

  Personally I'd only bother with an IDE for Java, Objective-C or C# - then I'd choose IntelliJ, Xcode and Visual Studio respectively.

  I'd stick to a text editor otherwise.

• by jagawhowho on 6/6/14, 3:47 AM

  The combo of emacs, slime, ac-slime, paredit, redshank.

• by zindlerb on 6/6/14, 1:26 AM

  my current favorite free IDE is lighttable.

• by languagenerd on 6/6/14, 11:38 AM

  Emacs

• by motyar on 6/8/14, 3:25 AM

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