Re^2: Perl Developer Survey 2017 results are available

[Anonymous Monk]

Joking aside now: this must have been a multiple-choice question. All we know is that some people use more than one IDE, while 596+ respondents only use one.

[LanX]

hmm ... at least Your Mother and Hippo should know, it's not online anymore.

[hippo]

Surely you jest, brother LanX? That was almost 2 months ago. I can barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

There were certainly some questions where multiple answers were available, eg. "Q5 What other languages do you use?" but I don't immediately recall if the IDE question was one of them as I would not have entered multiple answers there anyway.

The survey is useful in a qualitative fashion but I agree that the results could have been better presented. It's unclear whether that's the fault of BiP or of surveyplanet.com (or both).

[Discipulus]

> but I agree that the results could have been better presented.

indeed, we are Perl devs: attach the raw _DATA_

;=)

L*

[Your Mother]

I don’t recall that it was but my memory is not reliable at this point in time. I filled in ☑ Other: Emacs. I have been forced to develop in Notepad from time to time and I like Atom and TextMate.

[stevieb]

I use Vim technically, but for the most part, my platform for developing Perl code has been intelliJ IDEA with the Camelcade plugin, and Devel::Camelcadedb for debugging support (and of course, the vim plugin).

Due to my Open Source work, I was recently approved for intelliJ's Open Source License, which includes every single piece of software they provide, opened to the professional level. I use a few of their tools for C/C++ (CLion, which hooks directly into my Arduino hardware), C# etc.

I also use their PyCharm Professional at work, so every language I code in, I have consistency across the board, on *nix and Windows.

I am not advocating for the company by any means; their free PyCharm/IDEA is what I used for a couple of years for Python/Perl before I realized they had a license for Open Source devs, which is a relatively new offering they provide. Throwing this info out there for others who do a lot of open source stuff that may be interested in looking into it.

If I'm on a box without a UI, just doing a quick hack or don't have access to install anything, it's vi/vim (again, both platforms), especially after fixing a quick thing after doing a pull on one of my Raspberry Pi's.

When I'm on a Windows system where gVim can't be installed, it's Notepad++ if available, and at very worst, Notepad (help my soul without 4-space tabs).

Proud vi/vim user for 15+ years. Tried emacs a couple of times, but you know, you're typically either vi or emacs. I *can* bounce with emacs when necessary, but not very effectively/efficiently.