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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
I haven't used the .Net IDE since 2005; it was a hog then but I've heard good things lately. My favorite is Eclipse for Java/HTML/etc. Lightweight enough to run on my netbook but surprisingly powerful. Some of the best refactoring tools I've ever used. Awesome plugin support.
The whole write-once-run-anywhere java concept hasn't exactly panned out as well as planned as JREs never really became totally standard in OS's. But almost everything requires the runtime library to be installed - C++ has a runtime environment, the .Net framework is far heavier than any JRE, etc.
Just to be clear, the JRE is of no consequence here. Web app clients don't need it, and as a developer you'll need the JDK (probably will come with the IDE, like most languages).
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Actually, this brings me to another thing I'm wondering about... IDEs. There's a ton of them out there, which ones do people like? I'd want to stick with Mac versions pretty much. I'm starting to get familiar with Xcode, and I've heard of Komodo and Eclipse and RadRails...