Last month, the company announced P圜harm 4 – which is now surely making its way to a final stable release.
P圜harm is a product of JetBrains, a very developed company that focuses on building code editors for popular programming languages.
To me, what makes Sublime Text unique and special is the package manager, that’s right – Sublime has got its own package manager that you can use to install addons, plugins, additional styles and more cool stuff, though everything is meant to enhance your coding experience! You can find all the publicly available packages on WBOND. Recently, there have been new updates being pushed forward, something that many Sublime users have been waiting for! I try to use Sublime Text whenever I can, it’s such a well-designed, and well thought of development environment, it naturally appeals to you! Think of it like Notepad++, but only with all the extras and nifty features that development a breeze. The new Emacs 24.4 was recently released, and there are a lot of good new features to explore and play with.
Well, actually it’s a really in-depth tutorial on how to get started with Emacs.
If You know Vim already, perhaps it’s time to try out Emacs? You can check out the Emacs Redux blog for learning more about this IDE.Īre you a Clojure developer? Want to write code and execute it at the same time? This tutorial covers the basics of setting up Emacs. It is very common to see the words ‘Vim’ and ‘Emacs’ within the same context, as there seems to be a little bit of heat between developers. EmacsĮmacs is an extensible, customizable text editor-and more. The hardest part is to learn how to quit Vim! 2. You should read this in-depth overview of Vim by Ian Langworth, he has been a Vim user for over a decade, and has got some really great insights to share. You can learn Vim in many ways (I might cover this topic soon!), progressively or by studying tutorials on the web. Vim takes a couple of months to learn, but once learned – provides a seamless programming experience that you can directly integrate with your workflow. I can’t say I disagree (because that would be stupid, the community behind Vim is too strong!), but don’t take the praise and support for granted. Vim has been dubbed ‘The Best Code Editor’ of all time.
I’m biased towards Sublime Text, but I suppose because I’m also a Windows freak. You don’t have to install additional code editors (IDE’s) if you don’t want to, but it really helps to learn something new that has been built for the sake of making your programming experience less of a hassle. You’re also welcome to suggest topic ideas that you’d like to see, I’m fond of community support and it’s easier to create something when you know someone definitely needs it. I have written extensively on Python before, so please use the search function if you’re looking for things like Python Tools, Python Books, and Python Learning Resources. Python is a very friendly language, for novices, beginners and experts alike. By the way, the JavaScript roundup is also suitable for front-end developers. I have written about code editors before, more specifically – the post about Ruby IDE’s turned out to be one of the most popular posts of all time (on this blog), and the JavaScript code editors received a really great community response.
These days, specifically built IDE’s come equipped with necessary tools and features to make development a fun, and enjoyable activity.
You can look at it from many points of view, but having a good code editor (Integrated Development Environment) can really change the pace of your progress, be it for learning or for a full-scale project that you’re working on.