[identity profile] andlosers.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Visual Studio is lovely. I use NetBeans 7 right now, but because it's based on Java, it's dog slow in a way that slow dogs would be embarrassed to be associated with (while still being faster than Eclipse).

I've never found anything I really like for non .NET stuff - instead, I use an IDE until I get to the end of my tether with it, and move onto the next one. I can sort of see why people use vim, although that's always felt like seven shades of awful to me too.

If there was an IDE that just worked for my purposes, and did so well, I'd pay a thousand pounds for it, easily. Until then, a combination of things that don't quite work and Google gets me through.