A good IDE for MAC?

[aleksejs-...@altplus.co.jp]

It's a painful topic for Mac developers for a long time. Windows has FlashDevelop, probably the best AS3/Haxe IDE out there, mac has few extensions for editors that either are way too old and don't support the newer version of Haxe or are just lack basic features like auto-comletion of core classes or read any data from a target class.

If you're a Haxe developer with a Mac, what do you use?

PS: I don't want to use a virtual machine to launch Windows and install FlashDevelop on top of it.

[Cristian Baluta]

textmate, many other editors are too heavy

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[Philippe Elsass]

This is quite disingenuous to suggest Textmate which is both super old and super basic...

[Cristian Baluta]

I would say that the interface is not bloated but not basic. It was a time when none thought the V2 will come alive but now is actively developed and very stable. One thing though, autocompletion is not really usable.

[Postite]

I use sublimeText with clemos 's haxe bundle every day and it's very usable. Light and stable.

Hide seems to be more and more interesting but it lacks some major features on a  mac.

I heard jason o'neil has started an effort to make a haxe plugin for brackets (could be interesting too).

I never used intellij so i can't comment on this.

Btw. There is a talk on haxe ide on wwx videos which you could have a look on.

My take .

Sublimetext ftw!

[Philippe Elsass]

IntelliJ has a lot of weaknesses but it's still quite usable, so this is the default Mac IDE we suggest to newcomers who come from AS or Java.

 

Sublime Text is really ok and fits well with people coming from JS.

 

HIDE has a good potential but it kind of disgresses into fancy advanced features instead of focusing on providing all the features expected in an editor.

 

I've seen impressive screenshots of Gedit Haxe plugin - someone has to report on the list what it's like nowadays!

Philippe

[Marcelo Serpa]

I think people obsess too much about text editors and IDEs. Specially people that don’t yet get the Unix philosophy*[1]

Vim with the Vaxe plugin provides for a great Haxe experience, you just need to be willing to spend a bit of time setting it up and reading the fine manual. Besides autocompletion, what else do you need? Haxe has all of the tools in the command line.

*[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

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Marcelo

[Daniel Uranga]

+1 for Sublime Text with Haxe plugin.

Would like to use Vim with Vaxe, but im not used to Vim and I cant use it comfortably.

[aleksejs-...@altplus.co.jp]

I don't believe that caring about an IDE count as obsession. I think it's of upmost importance to have good tools for work. Tools that let you do what you want without spending time on making the tool behave. Other than auto-completion of local variable/method names it's great to have features like:

* Auto-importing target classes

* Showing method param number/types

* Enable renaming variables/methods/parameters across the whole project

* Underlining typos and errors

Basic editors are good for small edits, but I'd hate to make a real project with only a text editor.

I'm downloading Vim + Vaxe now, I'm really interested if it could do all those things.

In any case, thanks for the reply!

[Cristian Baluta]

speaking about sublime text http://sublimetexttips.com/giveaways/sublime-text-giveaway/?lucky=309925

[j...@justinfront.net]

Textmate2 is on github - and now that it's beginning to mature it's time
Haxe community added in all the best features of FD, in a more subtle
textmate way.

https://github.com/textmate

I personally always use textmate1.5 on a mac, and FD on a PC, they are
very different, I have not yet really found an editor I am happy with on
linux, maybe I need to read some Vim manuals.

But certainly I am aware Textmate needs more Haxe integration to become
an editor that inspires people to switch from Corporate languages with
all their bloat and tooling. I hope that Cristian's work would make it
viable in haxe to add to textmate, but for me buying a new mac just to
use swift is a hard decision, so currently i can't experiment with his
progress. But certainly adding to Textmate with haxe swift would be an
ideal way to mature haxe swift target, I expect apple would almost
sponsor us not to do such a thing!

[Cambiata]

Keep your eyes on HIDE (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Haxestudio/posts, ) - try it out and give feedback to Boyan!

[BP]

Seems to me that any IDE needs to support, at the minimum:

- code completion

- debugging for at least one target

Any ide that gets that going is making it happen for haxe..... 

[Kevin Newman]

Not everyone agrees with the Unix philosophy ("getting it" not
withstanding). I'll take a well built IDE over a set of disparate tools
any day.

Kevin N.

[Joshua Granick]

I agree, I think that choosing an IDE is a highly personal choice, it's
like picking a pair of shoes -- you want something that feels comfortable
to you, and helps you go all the places you want to go, hopefully without
too much added weight (if you care about that sort of thing).

Sometimes I think that they vary based on the environment. I use vi from a
terminal, but I prefer a more traditional graphic editor when I'm doing
most of my work.

I'm excited about the recent progress, as FlashDevelop on Mac and Linux
looks like more-and-more of a possibility. In the meantime, I'm personally
using Sublime Text while I'm not on Windows


On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:12:05 -0800, Kevin Newman <Capt...@unfocus.com>
wrote:

[Kevin Newman]

I've ben using SublimeText also even for legacy AS3 work. It's not
really an IDE though - code editors are useful, but they are different.

On the other hand, I got samples building without too much trouble from
the command line, and it sure is cool to see how easy it is to get
PiratePig running on multiple platforms. Wicked cool.

Thanks,

Kevin N.

[Mikeb85]

Vim w/ Vaxe and YouCompleteMe is the only way to go for Linux and Mac.

[musou1500]

I use vim plugin for haxe (vaxe).

It is awesome.

If you need, I can show my awful vimrc.

[tondy]

i use Geany (www.geany.org)

it is cross (bsd.linux,mac,windows,etc),  fast(c++) and user can set custom build commands.

it haxe plugin is not much thing but ...

:)

[Nicolas Juneau]

I don't know if it's available on Mac OS, but I use Editra for my Haxe
projects. The editor already has code coloration and method listing for
Haxe. For autocompletion, I don't believe there's any support yet. I
have a little autocomplete plugin for my projects. Nothing fancy, but
gets the job done.

I used EcliHx before, but I don't know if it's maintained anymore. There
was another Eclipse plugin to create Flash and Haxe projects, but I
don't remember its name. I believe it can be found somewhere on Haxe's
wiki or on the old Web site.

aleksejs-...@altplus.co.jp a écrit :

[Saumya Ray]

i am in SublimeText in windows and mac both !