<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Gilberio Carmenates Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:co7eb@frcuba.co.cu" target="_blank">co7eb@frcuba.co.cu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So Why cannot Erlang have its nice IDE
of its own?</blockquote></div><br>Because IDEs take a lot of effort to build! There are at least the two well-known: IntelliJ has a plugin, and erlide is the other large one, which is eclipse-based.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What makes Erlang remarkable however, is that the language is pretty easy to work with even if you have no IDE present, which is not the case for many other languages, where you have to provide a lot of completion-tooling in order to program decently fast in the system.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">People roughly fall into two camps: those who likes IDEs for their development, and those who like a simple, almost zen-like, approach to programming. The latter camp often uses editors which are based around the idea of manipulating text more than providing the basis for compilation, debugging and so on. Popular choices are indeed vi and/or emacs, but there are far more editors than just those two camps, so perhaps you would be happy if you looked around and found something which matches what you like in the editing environment.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Do note: many of the vi/emacs proponents are UNIX users, and UNIX is already an IDE for building software. This helps a lot since you can avoid relying on the editor to provide for you.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">J.</div>
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