Hello all,
I’m new on this forum. In fact, i heard about ST 6 month ago and i use it since now 1 week only for** web development**, so this article talks about my web developper point of view.
I use also some others IDE (Visual Studio 2010, Netbeans and Dreamweaver). When i discovered ST2, i thought that it was really DIFFERENT.
This IDE has something more : from my point of view, it’s the fastest when you want edit code, really intuitive and very fast.
What i really love and want in others IDE :
- A wonderfull interface.
- CTRL+ P seek (really awesome). I win lot of time with it cause i know my projects.
- CTRL + F seek, Snippets and shorcuts are better too.
- And the packaging is really cool.
Use ST2 + ZenCoding really changed my life . Some others packages are really usefull too.
Those elements make me really happy use it but, for those reason, i’m obliged to use Dreamweaver in complement of ST2 :
- Project managing sucks really hard. You can’t copy-paste a file into a folder.(still using Dreamweaver for that).
- There are** problems of color** when you use differents languages inside string("…"). For example when you call an ajax page and you want to use a PHP variable : “GET”,“url…/<?=$myVariable?>”. The PHP isn’t colored differently, and u can make some mistakes when you make harder code.
- When i’m on css page, css completion is good, but when i’m on a php page, there are no css completion when i do : The **recognition of environment **isn’t perfect. I mean that the IDE doesn’t recognize the change of language in the same page.
- A documentation could be good for functions(Javascript-PHP for example).
- And the final point is the most important and why i still use Dreamweaver : there is no native bug correction . Sometimes it’s just a simple problem of syntax, and you can’t see it fast.
Even if those points should make the IDE louder, i think they are necessary.
I’m sorry if my english isn’t perfect, i’m not a english native^^
I don’t know any perfect IDE but I’m sure that ST2 have a wonderdull future and it can be the best IDE if it integrates those things.
Tell me what you think about it and tell me too if i made mistakes about the “bad” elements list (it’s highly possible), and maybe the ways to correct or improve it (packages for example).Thx for reading and maybe for answering.
–Tazlle.