Aptana Studio 3 ROCKS~! (IDE for JavaScript)

[Renegade]

My general disdain for JavaScript isn't much of a secret, and I pretty much hate coding any JavaScript at all... However... Man... Aptana Studio 3 makes it SOOOO much better! It could even become enjoyable!

IDEs like Visual Studio are simply too good. Way too good. They spoil you with all kinds of things like code completion and all manner of goodies. Aptana Studio isn't VS, but man... It's close, and certainly makes JavaScript programming much nicer. (And certainly better for JS than VS is -- VS sucks for JS programming.)

Anyways, just thought I'd pass on that recommendation for anyone who does JS, and especially for those that are used to IDEs like VS.

http://aptana.com/

[Ath]

Aptana Studio isn't VS, but man... It's close, and certainly makes JavaScript programming much nicer.

You could just have said that Aptana is in fact a customized release of Eclipse 3.x, but maybe that's too much for a VS addict like you

They do have quite amazing Javascript support, yeah!

[Renegade]

Aptana Studio isn't VS, but man... It's close, and certainly makes JavaScript programming much nicer.

You could just have said that Aptana is in fact a customized release of Eclipse 3.x, but maybe that's too much for a VS addict like you

They do have quite amazing Javascript support, yeah!

I didn't want to scare people off by saying the "E" word!

[Ath]

I didn't want to scare people off by saying the "E" word!

Some ppl actually like that "E" thing but I don't wanna start another flame/praise thread about IDE's.

As (we already) said, Aptana is great for JS, and ofc also for other web-related development (it supports nearly anything that is used for website development), and it's also available as an Eclipse plugin.

[Deozaan]

You could just have said that Aptana is in fact a customized release of Eclipse 3.x...

Is it? That's weird. I think I've used Aptana before and liked it a lot for JS. But I've also used Eclipse before and didn't like it very much.

[Ath]

Is it? That's weird. I think I've used Aptana before and liked it a lot for JS. But I've also used Eclipse before and didn't like it very much.

I'm using Eclipse 3.7.x with Java a lot,

o_O

and I prefer it much over NetBeans (7.x), even though that NB has some convenience points over Eclipse (mostly related to the default project/deployment features of the standard Ant build script, but I have my own set of Ant scripts).
I wish I had a same level IDE for C# (comparing usefulness and speed with VS2010... , and yes, I'm running W7x64 on an i7-860 with 8 GB memory).
OTOH, using Eclipse with C/C++ is IMHO absolute horror, compared even to Borland C++Builder 5 or 6.

Hm, still got trapped into that IDE-war, though I didn't want to go there

[Renegade]

Heck... I don't need to beat on Eclipse! You're doing a very good job already Ath~!

Just kidding~!

Eclipse is a very competent IDE, though like all IDEs, it's better at some things and nasty at others. e.g. VS is awful for JavaScript. It's basically useless.

Anyways, I got done what I wanted with Aptana. And man... Aptana has SERIOUSLY curbed my hatred for JavaScript. It really makes JavaScript much nicer to use~!

Even more on the topic of my hatred for JS... I don't think I really hate it anymore. Aptana was that nice to use!

But, here's what I was working on:

http://cynic.me/2012/05/17/frackin-reserve-web-edition-a-fractional-reserve-banking-simulator/

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It's a simple little thing, but I got it done fairly quickly. Especially considering I've done very little JS programming lately and am pretty rusty.

I've also developed a new respect for JavaScript. It's fast enough to do what I was looking to do, and does it well even. I've been so horribly disenchanted by crappy web programming crashing my browser or grinding it to a halt, that I didn't think it would work. (I know a few years back that JS simply couldn't do it on the hardware at the time as I'd tested some iterative logic.)

In a word... Wow. I'm impressed.

But, it still makes me wonder just how in Hades some web sites manage to grind the browser down? Well, that's with some plugins working, but whatever. Plugins are done in JS anyways, so same horse, different steamer.

However, my forward looking hope is to transition over to another IDE later on as I'm still on my "divorce yourself from MS" mission. It's harder than it sounds...

[clo]

I prefer to use Codelobster
It has best JavaScript autocomplete.

[wraith808]

I prefer to use [the product I am affiliated with]
It has best JavaScript autocomplete.

Until you're established - especially when you're recommending your product, you want to make that association clear.

[Deozaan]

I prefer to use [the product I am affiliated with]
It has best JavaScript autocomplete.

Until you're established - especially when you're recommending your product, you want to make that association clear.

@clo: Yup. Reviving a 3 year old thread to surreptitiously promote your own product certainly doesn't look very good.