Well, here we have it, everyone has their favorite and if it makes you
more productive and your development time more enjoyable, good on you.
Personally, I think diversity is a good thing. I for one don't really
like all-in-one IDEs, other people do. Linux people generally already
have a favorite editor before they come to RoR and are happy they can
just keep on using it. TextMate on the Mac is a really nice editor,
but there are other valid choices as well. On Windows, you also have
plenty of choices. If you want Textmate on Windows, buy e-TextEditor:
it works the same, it almost looks the same and it uses the same
bundles as TextMate does. If you'd rather go with something else
you're already used to, by all means, go for it. No one is touting any
editor as being "the editor for HTML & CSS", "the editor for
Javascript development" or "the editor for PHP development", so why
would there need to be one for RoR development?
Am I willing to spend money on a Mac (which is far less expensive than
$3500 btw)? Yes. Is it because of TextMate... hardly. It's because
working on a Mac makes me a happy programmer and provides me with an
OS and application suite that feels solid and intuitive to me, i.e. a
Mac makes me more productive. Being productive leads to nice
applications which hopefully lead to a solid revenue for the company I
work for.
Do I get the same feeling on another platform? No. Is this a personal
preference? Yes. Should it matter to someone else what I'm spending my
hard earned money on? I don't think so.
And besides, even if I would run Linux, you can be sure I would be
buying a powerful, i.e. > $1500, computer anyway. Why? Because I don't
like waiting, whether that is due to lack of processing power or memory.
Do Macs come with a premium in terms of specs compared to what you can
get with a self-assembled PC? Most probably. Does it feel as a premium
when looking at a Mac as a whole, i.e. hardware, OS and applications?
Not at all.
On 27 Aug 2010, at 01:21, Yiannis wrote:
I feel that the whole community is supporting mac and textmate but I
found that this is a problem. We should use cross platform tools if we
want more people to try rails. All the screencasts I have seen are
using with textmate, for example how easy it is to setup an autotest
without growl, rspec without output from textmate etc.? How do you do
that with other editors, like komodoedit?
So you got yourself a $3500 text editor? Congrats.
Yes! And I'll never go back. :)
I say the same thing about Emacs.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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