[TYPO3-dev] What IDE do you use for development?

[Steffen Kamper]

Francois Suter schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>> I use it since RC1 and I can highly recommend it, although it lacks a
>> couple of functionality compared to ZS.
> 
> Yep, I use NetBeans too. Some of the 6.5 betas were a bit unstable, but 
> since RC1 everything runs fine. It's much lighter than Eclipse, which I 
> have come to hate pretty quickly...
> 
>> Another good think that comes along with NetBeans is, that the guys at
>> Zend finally woke up and investigate on putting ZS back on track.
>> The much a like debugging with xDebug, the more complete overview about
>> what your variables are really all about, you get with Zend Debugger.
> 
> Ooh, that's good news. Zend Studio as a stand-alone app we so much 
> better than the integration into Eclipse. But maybe I'll stick to 
> NetBeans now anyway ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 

for me Zend is too expansive for what the do - building on 
open-source-software.
As Francois pointed out, Netbeans is much lighter and good with handling 
daily tasks.
I really like the code completition, did you ever tried:
Go one line above a function, type /**[enter] :-)

vg Steffen