From: "Wilde, Donald S" Date: 2011-06-02T08:35:33+09:00 Subject: Re: What editor or IDE do you use? -----Original Message----- From: Chad Perrin [mailto:code@apotheon.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 4:12 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: What editor or IDE do you use? > Ruby has proven to have nowhere near that kind of difficulty associated with > its use, for me. This is one reason of many that I like it. I can use a vi- > like editor, focusing on writing and editing code rather than on getting the > editor to write the scaffolding and boilerplate I need, and to help me look > up complex chunks of code needed to achieve basic functionality. [snip] I strongly agree there, Chad. Last fall I built an entire target stimulation environment with a full wxWidgets GUI that launched half a dozen extra processes for target instrumentation through telnet that talked through shared memory, and I never once missed a debugger. Whole thing was edited with SciTE. Ruby just is too easy to figure out. :) Now I'm being forced into C++, and I just can't do it without a full debugger. As good as Eclipse is, I find myself really missing the class-browsing tools I had with Smalltalk 20 years ago. C++ is really difficult to keep from straying into syntactic nightmares, especially when they're somebody else's syntax. THAT's where you need a really top-shelf IDE. About the only tool I'd like to have for Ruby over and above basic editing is a refactoring class browser; that'd be a nice tool to have. OTT just a seamlessly slick little editor and I'm happy. Any of the aforementioned will do. Which is why I REALLY want to get Ruby ported to my little target, so if anyone has a clue as to how I can get past the little linker bugaboo that has make failing to pass a symbol file name to ld...