Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features?

Re:Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features? by smikhanov on Saturday October 01, 2011 @10:50AM (#3060134)

And I'm guessing your fancy refactoring tools probably don't correctly handle the case where part of your code is in one language, which then automatically builds code in another language to compile into the main project. I've never seen an IDE that didn't get in my way with that workflow, and that's the secret sauce that my programming style cannot live without.

Yes, they do. IntelliJ products are capable of updating XML bindings for renamed Java classes/methods, reasonably good guesses about JavaScript/Python functions used in maps (i.e. with their names used as string keys, outside of the AST).

I don't want to be judgemental here, but it seems like you yet have to meet the really big codebase.

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Re:Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features? by colomon on Saturday October 01, 2011 @11:06AM (#3060154)

Umm, your XML binding stuff is great, but I would need a refactoring tool to go into Perl code, figure out what bits of it are actually C++ that are going to be output later, and change that. I would be really, really surprised if you have a tool capable of handling that routinely.

It's true I've never really worked on a project with more than a million lines of code, though. My core work is more on the scale of 300,000 lines of code.

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