dev guis (Score 2, Informative)

I have two different opinions regarding GUI-based dev environments. First of all, when I use Linux / Solaris, I find that KDevleop is pretty nice, but it's just not good enough (to me) to warrant using it over emacs/vi and gcc. I've heard that CodeWarrior is better, but I haven't ever used it much, and when I have seen it I wasn't impressed. On the flipside, when I develop in Windows, I use Visual Studio.NET (I used to work for MS, so I have a copy of the Beta 2). It comes with lots of cmd line tools, but the visual ide is very, very good. I definitely use VS when I'm using windows. However, if you really wanted to, the cmd line tools can accomplish everything that the IDE does in terms of settings, compilation, project management, etc. I'm still a linux fan, but I've got to give proper credit to VS.NET. At any rate, I don't think one or the other determines whether or not you can create "state of the art" software. That has a lot more to do with the skill of the engineer.