wwx14 speech : jean-baptiste richardet "what's your favorite haxe ide?"

What’s your favorite Haxe IDE?

Is it the right choice?

Who am I to tell you that?

!   Jean-Baptiste Richardet (@JbIPS)

!  Lead Developper on GRAR @Knowledge-Players

! Haxer since 2012

How to choose an editor?

!  OS

! Autocompletion abilities

!  Helpfulness

! Look’n’Feel, Open Source, Habits,…

How many have you tried ?

Lot! (srly, 10)

The most popular* Sublime Text

ü  Multi-plateform

ü  Powerful but still light

ü  Very good autocompletion

ü  Lots of plugins

² More editor than IDE (no refactoring or debugging)

²  Proprietary, $70 (but free use authorized)

*(Twitter survey, 2014)

The most advanced FlashDevelop

ü  Very smart code completion

ü  Flash & C++ debugging

ü  Free and Open Source

ü  Integrated source control

² Windows only

² HaxeDevelop would be a so much nicer name!

The big one IntelliJ IDEA

ü  Multi-plateform

ü  Sooo powerful! Code refactoring, analyzing, beautifying,…

ü  Open Source plugin, works with Community (free) Edition

ü  Integrated source control, debugger and so much more

² Need $179 license to use Flash target

²  Plugin start to be outdated, so autocompletion can be buggy

The Haxe one HIDE

ü  Multi-plateform (NodeJS)

ü  Promising

ü  Open Source, integrated in HaxeLib

ü  Looks highly customizable

²  Still in beta

² Need some work on UI&UX (volunteers in the audience?)

If you want more

!   FDT: For Eclipse lovers, autocompletion still need work

! MonoDevelop: Strongly linked with OpenFL

! TextMate/Geany/Fraise: Why not Sublime?

And, for the hardcore ones:

!   Vim (Vaxe): GUI is for no0bs!

Time for a choice!

It’s time for you to choose good.