Ask HN: don't you think javascrit would need a First Class IDE?

2 points by zooey 13 years ago | 5 comments

I think javascript development would be more and more painless if we could use an IDE with the same features Eclipse has to traverse, find, help, create, refactor, ecc java and its classes.

It would be a better OO Javascript World. What do you think?

zooey 13 years ago |

I understand your point. I use a text editor usually, but lately I've used Eclipse with java for a fairly big project (with a team and svn ecc).

And it seems to me that for the way web application are moving toward client-side, the bulk of the code will be on javascript in the future or a greater chunk of it.

What I liked about Eclipse&java is of course code completion (for the logWordsJavaUsesForClassesAndPackage) but most of all the order it brings to all of that comlpexity (classes, packages, enums, the use of different patterns ecc).

if think the more we go toward a complexification (does it exists in english ;P) of javascript projects, the more we are going to need something that bring order in the chaos.

Otherwise we will be a bit overwhelmed by the code of a language not born to do what we are using it for today.

lapusta 13 years ago |

Best one is in JetBrains products - http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp

Eclipse & VS suck with JS. There is also Dart Editor which Google is building for their new language. I think they are aiming to what you currently can do in Eclipse with GWT's Java code.

adamtaa 13 years ago |

As a person who isn't super smart I needed an IDE and I got jetbrains webstorm which is one of the products mentioned under the link posted by lapusta. I am not a shill for jetbrains products but I swear by them all the same.

klr 13 years ago |

I think you should learn to use vim. That sounds trolly but I mean it, do it.

shane_armstrong 13 years ago |

I think that an IDE makes it simpler to use, but that quickly writing accurate code is a better choice.

I personally use notepad when using my FTP or more often my cpanel light text editor. I haven't had too many issues thus far and have certainly never thought "if only this was easier, or I had some annoying code completion popping up and forcing me to use three arrows and an enter key to accept that one instead of just writing out the last 3 letters of this function."

And aswell as klr, I think this sounds trolly, but really, the time taken to download, install and learn an IDE could just be spent improving the code in notepad instead.