Making Your Choice
Choosing the best text editor for you depends on your preferences (and your willingness to pay), as well as the project you are working on. I use Vim for most of my coding, but I use IntelliJ when I write Java code, and I use Xcode when I work on iOS apps. The following overview of text editors should help you make your decision.
What Is an IDE?
In the next chapter, you learn about how your computer actually executes the code you write in your text editor. Part of that process involves having an environment that can understand and execute your code. In this book, we use a programming language called JavaScript; the environment that can understand and execute JavaScript is a web browser. For some other programming languages, ...
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