"Bryan Tong Minh" <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Tod
<listacctc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there an IDE that the MW developer community
has settled on and can
recommend?
Sam has a license for phpStorm, iirc, available for all MediaWiki
developers.
Bryan
I use phpStorm (got the license key from Sam), which is pretty good. I
probably use less than 1% of all its features, but the little things it adds
(like being able to click on a function call, hit a key and get a popup of
its documentation, or jump to its definition with another keypress) are
useful little timesavers. I started with Eclipse, but as Brion says it gets
*very* grumpy when trying to load large projects, and seems to have quite a
few memory leaks.
Ultimately, the codebase is sufficiently large and esoteric that few-to-no
IDEs are able to fully discharge the task of "integrating" development,
testing and deployment (I have yet to hear many success stories of
debugging/breakpointing/etc, for instance, and you'll probably waste as much
time (and hair) getting it working as you'd save by using it); so basically,
go for whatever will do the things you want with the minimum of extraneous
"features" which will probably just end up consuming time, memory and
sanity...
--HM