Jean Baptiste Richardet's speech at WWX2014, other videos, photos, slides and comments : http://www.silexlabs.org/202957/the-blog/wwx2014-speech-jean-baptiste-richardet-lead-developper The 4th International Haxe Conference WWX2014 organized by Silex Labs took place from 23th to 26th may 2014 in Paris. http://wwx.silexlabs.org/2014/

1. What’s your favorite
Haxe IDE?
Is it the right choice?

2. Who am I to tell you that?
! Jean-Baptiste Richardet (@JbIPS)
! Lead Developper on GRAR @Knowledge-
Players
! Haxer since 2012

3. How to choose an editor?
! OS
! Autocompletion abilities
! Helpfulness
! Look’n’Feel, Open Source, Habits,…

4. How many have you
tried ?
Lot! (srly, 10)

5. The most popular*
Sublime Text
ü Multi-plateform
ü Powerful but still light
ü Very good autocompletion
ü Lots of plugins
² More editor than IDE (no refactoring or debugging)
² Proprietary, $70 (but free use authorized)
*(Twitter survey, 2014)

6. The most advanced
FlashDevelop
ü Very smart code completion
ü Flash & C++ debugging
ü Free and Open Source
ü Integrated source control
² Windows only
² HaxeDevelop would be a so much nicer name!

7. The big one
IntelliJ IDEA
ü Multi-plateform
ü Sooo powerful! Code refactoring,
analyzing, beautifying,…
ü Open Source plugin, works with
Community (free) Edition
ü Integrated source control, debugger and so much more
² Need $179 license to use Flash target
² Plugin start to be outdated, so autocompletion can be buggy

8. The Haxe one
HIDE
ü Multi-plateform (NodeJS)
ü Promising
ü Open Source, integrated in HaxeLib
ü Looks highly customizable
² Still in beta
² Need some work on UI&UX (volunteers in the audience?)

9. If you want more
! FDT: For Eclipse lovers, autocompletion still need work
! MonoDevelop: Strongly linked with OpenFL
! TextMate/Geany/Fraise: Why not Sublime?
And, for the hardcore ones:
! Vim (Vaxe): GUI is for no0bs!

10. Time for a choice!
It’s time for you to choose good.