Wow...it would be my perfect environment too. Woul...

2011-08-18T17:07:21.437-03:00

Wow...it would be my perfect environment too. Would love to see some IDE/Editor trying to produce something like that. Maybe this post should be read by the companies who produce textmate or intellij.

I definitely agree with you. I think one of the bi...

2011-08-11T16:05:48.139-03:00

I definitely agree with you. I think one of the big draws of IDEs is that they appeal to beginning programmers - those are intimidated by the multistep process of compilation, linkage, etc. In my Intro to Java high school course, no one had touched a command line before. Even then we used TextPad to hide away "javac" and "-classpath" and etc - we just wanted to make games, not be bothered with all of this "compiling" nonsense. After the first year I discovered Netbeans and was immediately drawn in because of all of those useful features (code completion, etc.) that you described.

Four years later I still use Netbeans for Java dev but I'm frustrated by the large amount of time spent configuring popups and default window visibility and locations of toolbars - basically exactly what you've described. All of that extra work also slows the IDE down and interferes with the most critical features like CC or even just responding quickly to text input.

The DrScheme environment is perhaps one of my favorites - very succinct interface, very fast.

Try QtCreator. It fits your description pretty acc...

2011-08-11T10:59:28.302-03:00

Try QtCreator. It fits your description pretty accurately.

Comments on Rafael rambling: Speculating about Future Development Environments

Wow...it would be my perfect environment too. Woul...

I definitely agree with you. I think one of the bi...

Try QtCreator. It fits your description pretty acc...