For me personally it is interesting to see that Notch seems to prefer Dart Editor (Built on the Eclipse platform) over something like Intellij IDEA or Webstorm (https://www.dartlang.org/tools/webstorm/).
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He doesn't seem to like it: "Argh! This editor pretty horrible" - Notch (Aug 25 2014 19:37 UTC)
Also something like "Argh! This doesn't let me use the mouse... I have to wrestle this" - Notch (Aug 25 2014 19:49 UTC)
I don't see how that is interesting, his using the official Dart IDE.
Also, he's always been an Eclipse user.
Eclipse is a wonderful development platform which is why it's used by millions of developers worldwide.
I normally use IDEA for Java, but the Dart Editor works fine for Dart. The Eclipse foundation it's built on doesn't show through too badly so you don't have to mess with perspectives or anything like that.
(I don't yet trust its refactoring, though.)
I'm currently switching between IDEA 14 (preview edition) and Dart Editor but using IDEA more and more.
IDEA 14's Dart plugin is further along than the one from IDEA 13 :)
I'm on the Dart team and I recently switched from the Editor to IDEA (13 then 14) too. It really is much better. There's only so much you can do when you build on top of Eclipse.
He comes from a java heavy background. I would expect him to already be comfortable with Eclipse.
Didn't know that, makes sense, thanks for the pointer.
Judging by how often it's freezing / locking up he should investigate alternatives.