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sigzero on Jan 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review

There isn't anything better than Vim or Emacs. Sorry.

angersock on Jan 7, 2014 [–]

For text editing, sure.

For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse.

All that said, these tools are quite useful despite being old--I don't mean anything pointing out their age other than that a somewhat old laptop is probably still quite sufficient.

brianpgordon on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

Eclipse? Surely you mean IntelliJ IDEA.

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