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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? 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. 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. 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 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. 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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