A Beginner’s Guide to Integrated Development Environments

Wikipedia contains a fully documented and referenced table of IDE's with links to reviews and comparisons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_develo...

This page on text editors is also excellent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Prog...

Wikipedia is weird in that way, there is little information on some topics but an overload of non-encyclopedic information on niche topics. For more depth there are articles that are also language specific, for eg. PHP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_Development_Tools

and Javascript-based editors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_...

I wonder what their rationale is for listing visual studio as costing $549, when you can get the excellent express versions for free. They do have some limitations, but if all you are looking to do is get what works, then they are perfectly viable.

The Inform 7 IDE is pretty sweet, albeit specifically for the development of text adventures in Inform 7.

http://inform7.com/learn/movies/

Click 'build', and it compiles the game, produces a map of the locations in the game, indexes all the items in the game, and the rules and behaviors you've specified, etc.

Great list. I'm missing QtCreator.

Others missed but useful for beginners:

BlueJ (Java), Arachnophilia (HTML/C/Java)

Excellent post. I'm in the process of bringing some early developers into the fold and this list gives me a great way to encourage them to discover their coding preferences on their own.