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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:07:52+00:00

I’m a bit in IDE trouble, and I’m not alone I have noticed, still

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I’m a bit in IDE trouble, and I’m not alone I have noticed, still I haven’t found an answer on many of my questions.

I would very much stop using different editors and become very good at one (on windows), adhering the pragmatic adage : “Learn one editor (ide) well”. I’ m willing to put in a lot of effort, to gain on the long term.

I have programmed (java) with Intellij and Eclipse, and am progamming c# now. (VS08 was at first very disappoing for me, till so at SOF mentioned Resharper and now I’m very happy with it, especially since I started writing macros for further adjustments)

For all purpose editors, VIM and EMACS come to mind, but I’m afraid they just cannot compete against VS08/Resharper when it comes to C#, which I’m using a lot on this moment. Further, it isn’t clear to me if they support refactoring (after installing packages for the language in question?)

But since VS08/Resharper is so powerfull for c#, I would like to give VS a serious chance. But for that it should have support for langauges that don’t compile to CIL.

hence my question : Is Visual Studio a good tool for non .NET languages?

(and like asked on the side : how about refactoring in VIM/EMACS?)

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  1. Editorial Team

    VS is IMO, better then average editor but not something you can’t live without.

    If you like your editor to open as fast as Notepad with bunch of features, try EditPlus (on the down side it uses older RegExp implementation but on the plus side it can be made to be portable.

    If you would like total extensibility, fast startup, inovative fatures, integrated reposity etc.. try E-Editor, windows port of Mac TextMate.

    VIM is ofc superb, but … long learning curve may be a problem and some people can’t find themselves in 2 mode editors.

    About Resharper… mhm… almost all of its non-code analytic features may be integrated in mentioned editors. For its suggestive features I doubt there is alternative. I disabled it for the moment because I tend to let Resharper fill in my holes so it can be a double bladed sword – sonner or latter I will totally stop thinking about some things like, can this variable be null or can I move its declaration. I run resharper once I finished some working procedure or at the very end to polish the code.

    I personaly use EditPlus for all of the NON MS languages, but E-Editor got my attention recently.

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