“Tim Bray recently posted the results of his Developer Tool
Survey (although, I think it was really an editor/IDE survey). He
asked Ruby and Rails developers about what kind of development they
do (primarily Ruby or primarily Rails), and which editor/IDE they
use. While the survey was not very scientific (and raised the ire
of a number of ‘old school’ rubyists because of the phrasing of
some of the questions) it does provide some interesting
information:
- “Text-mate was the clear favorite overall and among the Rails
leaning contigent (which reflects the general Mac bias in the Ruby
community), although VI editors have about the same number of users
on the ‘pure’ Ruby side of the house…”
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