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[Christian Knudsen]

I still do all my programming in this:



So something like Code Bubbles seems like total overkill to me!

[drChengele]

Flashdevelop helps my productivity loads.

I demonstrated the brilliance of its code completion the other day by mashing my face into the keyboard and pressing Enter before a co-worker. And lo did Flashdevelop summon legible code from my flippancy.

We should harness this power to usher in a new era in game development.

[Rob Lach]

Seems more suited for looking at code than actually developing.

[Mikademus]

I still do all my programming in this:

The shadows are all wrong in that render!

[terloon]

I've personally never found IDEs to help my productivity all that much. Good languages, tools and APIs usually do on the other hand.

Refactoring, refactoring, refactoring. I started using something called Visual Assist for C++ and I just love being able to write the implementation and have it create the prototype for me in the header automatically, and that's just one of its other many features.

Also, an ide IS a tool.

[skyy]

Gotta love refactoring and Visual Assist for VS.

[terloon]

Seems more suited for looking at code than actually developing.

I don't know about you guys but I feel a big part of developing is looking at code. That's why we invented syntax colors, naming schemes, etc. To make it easier to look at the code. This is just another way to look at the code to facilitate development.

[Klaim]

Same here, you know you'll spend more time debugging than actually writing code, and debugging often mean figuring out what the code you're reading was meant to be.

However, I'm interested to see how it goes (for C++) but I have no idea if buble editor would be better than our current practices. I'd like to try to get an idea. But with C++ :D (no project in java at the moment).

[drChengele]

Same here, you know you'll spend more time debugging than actually writing code, and debugging often mean figuring out what the code you're reading was meant to be.

Someone needs to take this code bubbles thing to debugging c++. I would kill for an extension to any C++ IDE, which would expand the call stack HORIZONTALLY during step-by-step debug. So with each new call, a window opens to the RIGHT of its caller, listing that function only. When a function exits, the window closes. Thus enabling you to scroll horizontally to go in "depth"...

There should also be a changelog of when which variable was changed by which line (obviously only in step-by-step mode). And when you hover over the change info the line in question that caused the change is highlighted in the relevant code "bubble" .

[Ina Vegt]

What I don't like about it is that it don't seem to be language-agnostic. If language parsing/definition is defined by some kind of plugin, then excellent, we can have it later for, say, C++ right?
If however the buble behaviour is dependant on the java language, then FAIL!

It seems to be an Eclipse plugin or something like that, since Eclipse is mostly used by Java devs, it makes sense to use Java in the demo. Still, Eclipse supports many more languages than just Java, so I wouldn't be surprised if it shipped with multilanguage support out of the box.

[Klaim]

drChengele> Visual Studio needs this 
Hoping a similar plugin could be made for VS2010... *having wet dreams...*

Ina Vegt> That's what I was thinking too but on the website they seem to say that it's specially made for Java... As C++ is clearly really harder than Java to parse (because it needs to understand the grammar for some features and reactions), I suspect them to not bother about this language.
However I'd really like to be wrong about this.