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by Miyamoto 4621 days ago
Can PHPStorm be considered a full fledged IDE?

I kind of think a full fledged IDE should be capable of multiple languages. e.g. Ruby, Python, HTML5, etc. all in one package.

PHPStorm is a specialized IDE.
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jtreminio 4621 days ago
PhpStorm ships with support for PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

It has plugins for:

* ASP * Behat * CoffeeScript * Gherkin * HAML * Markdown * LESS * YAML * NodeJS * Dart * AngularJS * C/C++ * Mongo * Apache/Nginx * and a lot more ...

Yeah, I'd say it's full-fledged.

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jshen 4621 days ago
it's just a stripped down version of intellij, at a lower price. Pay for intellij and you get all the languages that are supported.
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EdwardDiego 4620 days ago
PHPStorm is more focused and coherent and includes some features that IDEA + PHP plugin doesn't, IMO. If I were a full-time PHP developer, I'd use PHPStorm, but for my occasional PHP needs, IDEA + PHP plugin is ideal.

PyCharm is much the same - for full-time Python development, I'd prefer it to IDEA + plugin.

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