Tim Bray presents "Ruby Survey Results," the results of a survey of 1000 Ruby developers on their favorite development tools, primarily focusing on editors / IDEs. In the category of Rails-focused developers, 38% of the vote went to TextMate, with vi, NetBeans and Eclipse lagging far behind. With Ruby-focused developers, however, vi edged out TextMate by a single vote, with TextMate, Emacs and Netbeans as runners up. With all results tallied together, however, TextMate took a healthy lead on vi, and cements its position as the #1 preferred development tool of Ruby developers overall.
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oooo_snap ·
But look at the Ruby only graph... Vim wins !
Rubyists know what's up ;)
Danno ·
*throws the vi gang sign*
Dan ·
I wonder how many Mac users *don't* use TextMate...
Peter Cooper ·
I use TextMate as a text editor and for easily getting around files, etc, but I don't use any of the supposed macro stuff or special features it has. It's just a nice text editor with syntax coloring and a project file list down the side for me.
Mark Thomas ·
Where'd they announce this survey? On a textmate mailing list?
Peter Cooper ·
According to Tim:
"on this [his] blog, on the ruby-lang mailing list and IRC channel"
I unsubscribed from ruby-lang a while ago which is probably why I missed it :)
Peter Cooper ·
I just can't believe nano didn't appear anywhere... :)
Joe F. ·
So the Rails crowd loves TextMate, but pure Rubyists are all about Vi! Rock on!
Dave ·
Actually, I'm surprised with the level of Textmate fanboy-ism in the Rails community that the ratio isn't higher.
I use Textmate about 20% of the time -- but Netbeans has really been rocking my boat recently, some of the stuff Tor Norbye and co are doing with it is amazing.
remi ·
vimtacular!
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Joe ·
Can you even step through your code in TextMate or Vi?
I use NetBeans because it is a REAL ide.
cedric ·
hum ...
textmate ... vi ...
gem install VimMate
:)