From: Tor Bechmann Yamamoto-Sorensen <tor@...>
Date: 2011-10-19T10:03:19+09:00
Subject: Re: IDE

IDE's can be useful and worth using in my opinion. As a matter of fact, 
Rubymine from Jetbrains has served me well for a year now.

The editor works very well and covers all the navigation/editing 
features that I need. The only time I need to use the mouse is when I 
want to place the cursor at a specific position in the code. Syntax 
highlighting, code completion, indenting, and code navigation works very 
well. File finding is really well done, as is search and replace, and 
version management integration is excellent. The IDE has a lot of useful 
and well-thought-out features that are nicely integrated with each 
others, although some parts feel less than mature.

As for drawbacks,  there are several minor issues that frequently annoy 
me, but currently none that hinder me in my work. I sometimes wish the 
developers would spend an entire release cycle on just ironing out bugs 
instead of adding support for the latest tools. Luckily the devs are 
responsive to bug reports, and generally seem friendly, and development 
is very active. Another thing that bugs me is Swing font rendering on 
Linux at font sizes less than 18pt, especially for Japanese characters.

Regards,
tbys