Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python and Ruby.

Posted by shire on Friday July 05, 2013 @05:56PM
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What does the HN community use as far as Python, PHP and Ruby development work? freelance or enterprise. is it worth spending the money on JetBrains products such as RubyMine, PyCharm, PhpStorm or should I stick with NetBeans or Eclipse for scripting languages work for mainly PHP and Python freelance work.

In particular PhpStorm vs Netbeans vs Eclipse

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by kellros on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:04PM (#5997139)

I'd say you should definitely download the trials and work in them for at least a couple of days. I personally am a big fan of the JetBrains products. I was fortunate enough last year when they had the 'end of the world' special to grab RubyMine, Webstorm, PyCharm, IntelliJ Idea and Resharper for less than $150. I honestly haven't worked with the IDE's much, but from my experience they are pretty good. I wouldn't bet much on the plugins per se, but I'd say you're in pretty good hands if you choose to work with an IDE specifically designed around a particular language/framework since a lot of languages are very opinionated about development (ex. Rails, Golang).

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by darklighter3 on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:07PM (#5996972)

I use PyCharm for Python development and I like it quite a lot. I find the code completion and debugger to be the most useful features. At $99 for an individual it is not terribly expensive and well worth it.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by shire on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:57PM (#5997115)

I agree I love the way PyCharm works.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by ndcrandall on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:15PM (#5996999)

I use Sublime Text 2 for rails development. I've heard good things about RubyMine, but I'm content with sublime plus a console for development, deployment, and source control.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by antonio-R on Saturday July 06, 2013 @11:47AM (#5999138)

If you don't mind spending money, phpstorm is the way to go. It's faster than netbeans and has a big company behind with custom support.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by achalkley on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:52PM (#5997097)

JetBrains products are great.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by shire on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:08PM (#5997148)

what you think of PhpStorm?

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by achalkley on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:22PM (#6043503)

Not used it. I've used AppCode, RubyMine and IntelliJ all great products.

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Re:Ask HN: JetBrains vs NetBeans vs Eclipse for PHP, Python ... by zachlatta on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:42PM (#5997067)

Tmux & Vim for Ruby, Rails, Python, and PHP stuff.

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