Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative?

Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by rbanffy on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:15AM (#1752841)

I think it all depends on what language/platform/framework you are working with. So far, Emacs has proven a joy to work with Django projects. I started using it on my move over to a netbook, because the screen real-estate is precious when I'm out of the office (and far from the big monitor). I went on and discovered elisp, made a couple customizations on how the editor starts, added a couple key bindings and so on.

OTOH, I can't use it with Google AppEngine projects because the way GAE takes over stdin/stdout, which prevents me from starting pdb/ipdb. For GAE work, I am stuck with Eclipse and Pydev. For me, the biggest nuisance is not the amount of memory/cycles it eats, but the amount of pixels.

What kind of framework you develop for?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by Swizec on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:16PM (#1752962)

I'm using emacs for GAE projects and I haven't noticed any issues. Django lets you deploy/test from the command line, same goes for Java.

Then again, I do always keep a shell open when I'm coding to run tests and stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by tommynazareth on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:56PM (#1753188)

I also have no problem using GAE and Emacs. I just run the dev server from the command line and its all good. Make changes to the code in Emacs, refresh the browser, and the changes are there. Where would you run into a problem that'd make you switch editors?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by rbanffy on Sunday October 03, 2010 @03:24PM (#1753399)

I often use pdb/ipdb.set_trace() in the code to stop the server and inspect stuff during execution. How do you do that with GAE under Emacs?

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