Coding Guidelines and Removing the IDE from the Equation
Posted by Matt Rajkowski on May 28, 2009, 10:00 AM EDT
Every so often the topic of which IDE do you use comes up. I've posted about this in the past and while I passionately have a preference, as do others based on the comments to that article, I've found that given the requirement of writing good code, the modern IDE choices are interoperable. Let me explain...
A bunch of us here at Concursive pay for our IDE. Others have chosen Eclipse. From my point-of-view I'm ok with that as the developers have proven that the IDE choices are interoperable. At the end of the day I can't distinguish code done in, let's say IntelliJ IDEA (my preference) to Eclipse (the preference of our other developers). I also have friends who use NetBeans (I only mention that for completeness).
What makes interoperability possible are coding guidelines and best practices...
