@JaredBusch said:

@tonyshowoff said:

I honestly don't know how anyone could not like JetBrains stuff over Eclipse, then again I see people arguing for Notepad++ over PhpStorm and WebStorm from time to time, bitching about how "they don't work.." I think it's just safer to say "you don't know what you're doing."

I love Notepad++, but I would never recommend it as an IDE. It is a great Notepad replacement and I have it on all Windows machines I use. It is certainly not an IDE in my opinion.

You'd be surprised how many people use Notepad++, TexMate, Sublime and not Atom for their IDE replacements. Some, like Notepad++ and Atom are free so I can see people taking the cheap route. But Sublime blows my mind, it costs nearly as much as tools from JetBrains!!

The only time that I see Notepad++ or Atom making tons of sense is when working on a language that you use rarely so getting a full IDE isn't important. Or maybe for learning so you don't have to learn the IDE too.

Atom is made by GitHub, so really focused on software development specifically.