How many of you use an .....

.....IDE?

No seriously I want to know. Don't act all like haxxorz from the '70s.

You are anonymous after all.

I myself am a newbie who was introduced to /prog/ramming using Borland's Turbo Pascal. Then I began using gedit when I began learning OOp in Java. And recently I began learning Vi but I'm still quite clumsy with it. All I am wondering is if it's really a good idea or just a waste of time?

So how many of /prog/ prefer a GUI editor over a CLI editor or even an IDE over an text editor?

Pascal was infinity more fun than JAVA lol

I like IDEs for OO programming. They give you a quick outline of your classes and methods, and code completion is awesome.

e.g. you type "someObject." and eclipse presents you with a list of all methods of the object, with a description and return types for each of them.

much better than having to look up the javadocs every few seconds in my opinion. sure, if you are only dealing with the basic classes like String, you won't need this because you just know all the methods. however, when dealing with new stuff its an incredible time saver.

for small C stuff I use vim, for larger projects geany can be quite nice.