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This has nothing to do with having a favourite editor or anything like that. I was just wondering, per language, what are the most popular Integrated Development Environments? Maybe a top 2-3 if there is some contention. (Perceived popularity is enough)

Thus Far:

C# - Visual Studio, SharpDevelop

Java - Eclipse, NetBeans, IDEA

Objective-C - Xcode

Delphi - RAD Studio

Object Pascal - Delphi, Lazarus

C, C++ - Visual Studio, Vim

PL/SQL - RapidSQL, Oracle SQLDeveloper

PHP - Eclipse, NetBeans, Nusphere PHPed

Actionscript (AS2, AS3) - FlashDevelop

Flex - Flash Builder 4

Python - Eclipse, IDLE

Perl - Padre

Common Lisp - Lispworks, Emacs

Ruby - TextMate

Haskell - Vim

Fortran - Vim

Visual Basic - Visual Studio

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    Is this a bit too broad?
    – MIA
    Commented Sep 21, 2010 at 15:40
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    @Jim, why too broad? Just a question that lists IDEs, not compares and describes them.
    – P Shved
    Commented Sep 21, 2010 at 15:44
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    One way to treat this question would be to list one language/IDE pair per answer and let the # of upvotes gauge popularity.
    – Adam Lear ♦
    Commented Sep 21, 2010 at 19:00
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    If this is going to become a voting thing it should be Community Wiki
    – WalterJ89
    Commented Sep 21, 2010 at 19:09
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    I agree that this should be community-wiki, not because it's a poll, but just because it's broad enough that it wouldn't make sense to have multiple answers for each language, so anyone should be able to edit them.
    – Gelatin
    Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 16:21

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  • PHP/HTML/CSS - PHPEd Best php code completion out there.
  • C++ - QtCreator w/ FakeVim (it's in the options)
  • Most Markup Languages - Notepad++ (don't forget to add plugins)
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Does else anyone use Aptana Studio (html, css, javascript, php, ruby, etc...)?

I love that IDE and its got to be pretty popular with over six million downloads.

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For the marketplace that I work in currently, I've found this to be a roughly accurate breakdown of IDE usage.

PHP - Breaks down to about 1/3 Eclipse PDT, 2/3 Editplus/Notepad++. Oddly enough it's also the rough breakdown of what folks using OO coding practices as well.

Java - Mostly Eclipse. Netbeans has been slowly growing with newer coders with the latest release.

.Net - Visual Studio sweeps the field.

Perl - Eclipse EPIC (only one shop uses perl, and that's a one man operation so...)

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