Somehow...it makes me more want to stick with Vim.

I'm with you, except I'm sticking with Emacs ;-)

Has anyone found a pleasant way of doing off-line development of Javascript on the iPad?

I'd quite like to play with it on the train to and from work, but don't get internet. This might simply be a bad idea.

Well..I don't know about iPad. But there's an App on the Android market called Terminal IDE that lets you do programming using Vim right inside your device. It even come bundled with Android SDK.

"Yo dawg, I heard you like to program Android. So I put an IDE in your Android so you can program Android while you're using Android!"

Why don't you write an offline Javascript app to do it? Use one of the javascript syntax highlighters for the editor, the localstorage api to save, eval() to run, etc.

Not JavaScript, but you can play with Lua in a really nice environment with Codea: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

There's an iPod/iPhone app called jsAnywhere that's free and I like it. You can create projects, have an HTML, CSS and JS file, and run it. Might not have an iPad version.

Vim is already available for the iPad. But I am not quite sure you are able to test your code on the browser.

I understand you can get Bochs for iOS, so maybe you could install a small distro inside that.

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Visual Studio is by far the best IDE for Javascript, it actually runs the code in a VM and then use the info to offer autocomplete

Jetbrains editors probably sweep the floor with VS or any other IDE developed. http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp?ide=w...

I'd say Netbeans is a comparable free option. VS isn't generally known for its JavaScript capabilities.

The problem I see with NetBeans is that it consumes a lot of resources. There are better & lighter options.

While I don't have Webstorm, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition consumes 250,000 kb with an empty project open while Netbeans consumes a bit under 400,000 kb, both without any sort of tweaking -- that's not that great of a difference to me. Vim, for instance, would be light.

Have you people even tried VS2010 for js? That thing actually executes your js in real-time so it knows the exact type of variables even after re-assignment and can offer type info/auto-complete that is 100% accurate.

Can you please post a link to see the features of VS2010? So we can compare. Thank you.