I’ve using Notepad++ for about a year and I have to say while it’s a great editor am sure you’ll think twice about using it once you see what eclipse can do.
For sometime I was thinking that eclipse was an IDE for JAVA only, and since am more of a web developer I haven’t had to deal with JAVA that much. But lately I’ve been wanting to make mobile applications and having to code everything word for word to make a phone app would a be a big pain in the rear end, believe me. This was when I found out that Eclipse could be extended with plugins to work with almost all the languages you can think of.
These are some the plugins I’ve installed to turn eclipse into a web development IDE. I don’t give you links because all you have to do to install them is go to help->install new software in eclipse’s menu.
PHP Development Tools ( PDT )
Javascript Development Tools (JDT)
Eclipse Web Developer Tools
Dynamic Languages Toolkit ( Python, Ruby)
So you see, there no reason why you shouldn’t try eclipse 😉 What other eclipse plugins do you use? help a newbie with a comment.