1000 Ruby Developers Vote TextMate #1 Developer Tool

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Tim Bray presents "Ruby Survey Results," the results of a survey of 1000 Ruby developers on their favorite development tools, primarily focusing on editors / IDEs. In the category of Rails-focused developers, 38% of the vote went to TextMate, with vi, NetBeans and Eclipse lagging far behind. With Ruby-focused developers, however, vi edged out TextMate by a single vote, with TextMate, Emacs and Netbeans as runners up. With all results tallied together, however, TextMate took a healthy lead on vi, and cements its position as the #1 preferred development tool of Ruby developers overall.

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12 Responses to “1000 Ruby Developers Vote TextMate #1 Developer Tool”

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   oooo_snap Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

   But look at the Ruby only graph… Vim wins !
   Rubyists know what’s up ;)

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   Danno Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

   *throws the vi gang sign*

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   Dan Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

   I wonder how many Mac users *don’t* use TextMate…

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   Peter Cooper Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

   I use TextMate as a text editor and for easily getting around files, etc, but I don’t use any of the supposed macro stuff or special features it has. It’s just a nice text editor with syntax coloring and a project file list down the side for me.

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   Mark Thomas Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

   Where’d they announce this survey? On a textmate mailing list?

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   Peter Cooper Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

   According to Tim:

   “on this [his] blog, on the ruby-lang mailing list and IRC channel”

   I unsubscribed from ruby-lang a while ago which is probably why I missed it :)

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   Peter Cooper Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

   I just can’t believe nano didn’t appear anywhere… :)

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   Joe F. Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 1:22 am

   So the Rails crowd loves TextMate, but pure Rubyists are all about Vi! Rock on!

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   Dave Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 3:20 am

   Actually, I’m surprised with the level of Textmate fanboy-ism in the Rails community that the ratio isn’t higher.

   I use Textmate about 20% of the time — but Netbeans has really been rocking my boat recently, some of the stuff Tor Norbye and co are doing with it is amazing.

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    remi Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 4:24 am

    vimtacular!

    i

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    Joe Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    Can you even step through your code in TextMate or Vi?

    I use NetBeans because it is a REAL ide.

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    cedric Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 8:49 am

    hum …
    textmate … vi …

    gem install VimMate

    :)