What is the most interesting and innovative development environment?

Question

Because every programmer knows that tools are important, and there is no tool more important to the developer than the environment you use for coding. Over the past few years, IDE-s has been falling into standards, and innovations are common in this area. What IDEs can you recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms have they introduced?

Answer 1

I did not use this, but saw a demo video yesterday. The IDE is called code bubbles and has a unique way to show and group related code together.

This suggests that I found that the intellitrace function in Visual Studio 2010 is quite innovative.

Answer 2

This is by far the coolest set of coding tools!

http://vimeo.com/36579366

Answer 3

Palm Project Ares: http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html

This is an IDE for Palm WebOS phones that fully work as a web application. You create and run your application in a browser, and when everything is ready, you deploy directly to the cloud.

Answer 4

I placed my bet on the Jetbrains Metaprogramming System. The concept is not new, but this is the first time it has been implemented on such a huge scale with great IDE support. First you create a DSL, then write programs to that DSL and finally generate the code in the target language.

Answer 5

I will go to Scratch , although I would not want to write a banking system using it :-)

Answer 6

Some interesting videos are a prototype structured editor that allows you to directly code AST .

This is just a prototype, and I don’t know if it will be developed yet.

Answer 7

One interesting IDE that I saw only in the video, Code Bubbles . It opens up code snippets as a graph of visual bubbles. This is really interesting and definitely what I want to try.