Does anyone know a good, open-source IDE for the Mac?
I’m sick of windows. My machine just died (again), and I have decided I am never using a Windows PC ever again. However, I do a lot of programming and I don’t want to buy some expensive IDE to do it. I mostly program PHP and Javascript, and do web design with HTML and CSS. What is a good web-development coding package that doesn’t cost any money?
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I heart Komodo Edit (though I’m mostly a python progammer).
You’d find a lot of use out of Eclipse, though I got sick of it after a while.
@Breefield Originally built for java, but has plugins for every language. That’s the thing about eclipse—it’s soooooo extensible. Too much so, I think.
But, it does a lot of things really well.
Oh, I wasn’t aware, that’s pretty cool actually.
I use TextMate. It is kinda free if you know how to delete a plist file. And it is pretty cheap.
I use CSSedit, TextMate, and Cyberduck. Cyberduck is free and the other two are cheap.
And, IIRC, I think both Eclipse has autocompletion for the major JS libraries. Actually, I think Komodo does as well.
If you want to do it completely free, I suggest textwrangler, and Firefox + Firebug :p
@andrew, thanks for the info. I mainly use Coda, and I love it, but I’m going to check out Komodo Edit now.
Thanks so much guys, I will be trying these out. Keep ‘em coming.
@andrew Did you guys write Fluther in Komodo?
like @andrew said, I’m really enjoying Komodo Edit right now.
Eclipse is pretty solid too. With the Aptana plugins is has support for lots of web languages, plus it does lots of other fancy things.
Finally, there are plenty of other lightweight open source dev environments like Jedit. But give Komodo a try.
@aeschylus
We wrote Fluther in many environments.. originally mostly eclipse (with plugins) and vim, but komodo for the last year or two.
(Actually, what @ben means to say is that when we didn’t know what we were doing, we wrote in Eclipse. Now that we’re savvy, Komodo is the way to go.)
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