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Posted by Jacob Murphy
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Jacob Murphy
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 32,014 Points

Good general-purpose IDEs?

Hey Everyone!

So I'm sort of looking for a good multi-purpose IDE. I recently started to branch out of the Python world and started looking into Google's Go programming language (BTW, if you guys ever decided to make course(s) on it that would be cool aswell). But I'm interested in building web app with it. So an IDE that could do front-end work would be neat aswell.

So far it seems Github's Atom editor is the one for this job, but I thought I'd ask here to see what other people think.

Thanks a bunch for reading,

Jack

2 Answers

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
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Hey Jacob,

Are you asking about Text Editors or IDEs?

Getting a little confusing.

If you are after Text Editors, then I recommend Atom or Sublime Text 2

I use both and can recommend them

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Sublime is a closed source black box mate. What if the founders die? What if its track all your movements on your computer? I wouldn't recommend Sublime to anyone. Your investing a lot of time in a non free program

Jacob Murphy
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Jacob Murphy
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 32,014 Points

I'm talking about IDE's for Go. But Atom can be made like such with plugins from what I've seen

jason chan
jason chan
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jason chan
jason chan
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Atom is a good editor. But you can always use sublime and your terminal to create files/folders.

The paid IDEs help refactor and help you typo a little less. You can use travis from github to test your code.

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Are you implying that files can't be created in Atom only sublime? If your not implying that, my mistake. I just want to make sure OP knows they can create files with Atom or Sublime.

Travis may be good for open source projects but not for closed sourced unless you want to pay $$$ monthly. So keep that in mind. Also most people usually use Travis as the CI and do testing before pushing to the repos. This way you find the errors before pushing to Github or whatever you use. I would reccomend to OP that he learns how to unit test first before setting up Travis.

Jacob Murphy
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Jacob Murphy
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 32,014 Points

Thanks for all the info guys! :)