[woolion]

If you're a beginner, I can definitely recommend Adventuron to get started very fast. It has a browser-based IDE and compiler, and gives you a simple portable html file for your game. Last IF jam we took part in, even veterans in Inform did not have the same level of polish that Adventuron has as default. Some even struggled to get a portable executable at all.

Why would you choose why over another? It's like general programming languages, the design makes trade-offs between expressiveness and simplicity, makes one approach more canonical than the others (e.g. in state management, choice between focusing on transition or locus, etc).