However, I’m not sure they could be so confident in an analysis with the Ruby ecosystem, because quite frankly, their RubyMine IDE is nowhere near as good Intellij, and in fact in terms of raw code editing, it can frequently hinder the developer. In the context of Java, I don’t think it’s a stretch to believe that an IDE like Intellij can bring an awful lot to the table to make development more productive, and that is the context of the above quote.
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But in Java, especially professional Java, you really get a lot out of a good tool that has integration with the application server and you can really use the analysis and refactoring and everything.”
In the web space it is understandable to use an editor as web developers are typically working with dynamic languages, and often use other tools like browser plugins to give them what they need. VS Code is a code editor with some features that you’d find in an IDE, and extensions that can provide additional functionality - so if people are turning to VS Code for developing it may imply that developers don’t know what a fully-featured IDE can give them. “VS Code is growing which is concerning, not from a competitive point of view but actually from the point of view that there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you. Jetbrains conducts a survey every year and got into a bit of trouble in their analysis of the Java ecosystem when they noted that Microsoft’s free, yet excellent, VS Code editor was growing in popularity: These things cost a significant amount of cash via annual subscription (although for some languages they do offer free, stripped down “community” editions). Jetbrains has expanded and created new IDEs tailored for other languages including C#, Go, Php, Python and Ruby. Jetbrains has been dominant in the Java IDE space for years with Intellij IDEA for understandable reasons: it’s a jolly good tool. That habit probably formed when I was primarily a Java developer, and the features on offer for a strongly typed language really shine. I’m not getting in the IDE vs editor debate, other than to say I use both, and I perhaps tend slightly towards IDEs whenever the project is a little more complex. To make my life a little easier, I’ve opted for an IDE: Jetbrains RubyMine to be specific. The Rails platform is extremely rich too, known for its convention over configuration, which allows one to side-step a certain amount of boilerplate, at the expense of the additional cognitive load of having to remember the conventions.
Ruby is a dynamic language with a rich standard library. I’m won’t pretend to be a Rails fanboy by any stretch, but it does allow for rapid development which is useful in start-up life, and it’s good enough for now. My day job is developing a Ruby-on-Rails application. RubyMine IDE: code insights or distractions? Part 1
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