IDE Support
As mentioned in Setting Up Our Workspace, many Grails developers find that they don’t need an integrated development environment (IDE) as much as they did when working with Java or other “high-ceremony” languages. In fact, an IDE sometimes gets in the way. A good text editor, a good browser, and the command line are often all you need to be productive with Grails. Personally, I (Dave) use TextMate; Ben, along with my former co-worker Nate (who happens to be the best programmer in the world), uses Vim.
That’s not to say that there isn’t support in the major IDEs. It’s just to let you know that you may not need it once you get going. The three major Java IDEs—Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA—all have varying degrees of support ...
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