Monday, November 11, 2013

Top 10 & Most popular Integrated Development Environments(IDE) for programmers

The basic input of all the webpages and the web apps is the coding.The internet  would have been worthless and boring but for the new innovative ideas coming out in designs and apps.This coding of different languages like    JAVA,HTML/CSS,  Python, C++,Ajax etc… is done in the Integrated Development Environment(IDE) ,which can also be called the Integrated Debugging environment or Integrated design environment. This is where all the codes are written and the apps and web pages designed.

The advantage of an IDE comes in because it is a compilation of four or five different application in one ,thus if you want to get into a hardcore coding an IDE is a must given the multitasking it does.
With IDE being a complicated piece of software by its very nature, higher productivity from it is expected and it is also expected that the IDE should make life easier and not tougher for the programmer.
1. Netbeans

This free Open source IDE from the Sun Microsystems is built on a third party architect. It has a respectable third party vendor support. This IDE has an excellent GUI designer. It include syntax highlighting and supports quite many languagues.

2. Eclipse


Eclipse is another free open source IDE which specializes in heavy Java development .It has almost all the features that an advance IDE needs. Though being specialized in java it also supports   C, C++,Python, using plug-ins. It is built on its own GUI library. Third-parties have embraced it for its performance while coding in Java but when it comes to other languages because of its heavy and complicated interface it takes a backstep.

3. Komodo IDE

Komodo IDE is a paid IDE from the ActiveState,a famous Mozilla Project. Komodo supports many languages which include  Perl, PHP, Python, C, C++,  Javascript, CSS, HTML, XML,and some more…With improved toolbox and quite fast processing speed this can be a good IDE to work on.

4. MonoDeveloped


MonoDevelop is an IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications .With its features like integrated debugger, code completion for C,C# & being easily customizable   this IDE is quite easy to work on.

5. Aptana Studio


Aptana Studio supports JAVA,HTML,CSS etc…It has the features like code completion ,outlining, Javascript Debugging, error and warning notification and integrated documentation .Aptana Studio is based on Eclipse and is available as standalone on Windows ,Mac & linux, or as a plug-in for Eclipse

6. QT Creator


Qt Creator allows developers to create applications for multiple desktop and mobile device platforms. It has  a visual debugger and an integrated GUI layout,forms designer, syntax highlighting and autocompletion.Predominantly used for C and C#.

7. CodeBlocks



Code blocks is a widely used IDE with fully extensible and compatible features. Its users are mostly those who are using C/C++.But additionally, with plug-ins it can be used for Python and other languages as well.It can be extended for other languagues with plug-ins,but its one of the best if you code in C & C#.

8. PSPad


This software is produced by a single  developer Jan Fiala for the Windows platform.It works with the plain text and creates web pages.
The code editor  supports many different languages ,but compatible only for windows.With features like Syntax highlighting and hex editing  present this only is quite comfortable to work on.

9.Geany


It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
It supports languages like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python.. and a lot of file types. It is also cross-platform and extensible. It does not have some super-duper feature that you may not even use.

10. Jetbrain

Jetbrain IDE is paid IDE.IT is an another IDE for Developer
.But it is easily useable

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