Back to the future — Code editors or IDEs

Maggie Biggs describes the growing popularity of code editors as a return to simplicity
and a search for tools that make development as efficient as possible. The article
Code Editors and IDEs Square Off
is hard to navigate, so I’ve included the print version.
Otherwise it’s an excellent comparison of code editors and IDEs.

Code editors are more efficient and extensible in everyday work. IDEs are useful
for tasks such as GUI design, UML modeling and
refactoring. I use Eclipse for my own work and would call it
an excellent IDE. Its modularity and the range of plug-ins
available let it hold its own against any editor I’ve seen or tried.

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• (March 5, 2004, jablok.cz) jEdit, the little editor that does a lot, and Tomuch’s post Time for jEdit