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  • Any reason for a downvote? Commented Jan 14, 2012 at 11:38
  • I think I'm gonna try Aptana and WebStorm as many have suggested. Thank you. I didn't downvote your answer btw. Commented Jan 14, 2012 at 13:12
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    The central tenant of that article seems to be that all IDEs are either perfect (Type 1) or counter-productive (Type 3). I don't agree with this. For those who haven't read the article, a Type 2 IDE is a text editor, i.e. no IDE at all. Commented Jan 14, 2012 at 15:00
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    I don't really agree with that article either. Eclipse is perfectly fine for PHP; the visual debugger works great (you have to know how to set it up, though, and install the zend debugger). It's not that great for javascript for reasons others mentioned, but it still brings much more to the table than a simple text editor, and there's no reason its javascript support necessarily has to suck. If it had some way of "extern"ing things it would be fine. I need to try netbeans for js and see if it does a better job... Commented Jan 14, 2012 at 21:18
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    the 'Type 3' link appears to be misdirected, landing on a short Wikimedia email about how page title search works. Commented Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20