I'm going to say the IDE because, at least with VS, there are things in there that don't directly apply to the language. For example, TFS support.


>Of course he's wrong, notepad sucks big time - it can't even select a word properly. The best editor for html, css, and perhaps javascript (although the other one, e editor, that I have is more helpful in matching and highlighting the matching brackets) is Fox's editor. I would love to have a tag matcher - select a piece of text, press a hotkey and get an inputbox where you enter the tag... well, could write that one in Fox, I guess.
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>But other than that, if you're doing web stuff, you don't need any damn compilers etc. You shouldn't need them. It's all just text. That VS requires a screaming machine is just proof how lame it has all become. The dev suite is getting too big and too complicated. I just wonder how much time it takes to learn the dev IDE vs time to learn the language you're working in.