Introducing Parsec - A light-speed IDE for the web

In the many years I’ve spent developing for the web, I’ve plenty of IDE’s and editors. I started out with Notepad, then discovered Notepad++, then found Sublime Text 3 and eventually graduated to Visual Studio.

Visual Studio (combined with ReSharper and NCrunch) remains to this day my all-time favourite IDE for C# development. For all their ailments, Microsoft have done an amazing job in producing what I consider the best (language-specific) IDE ever made.

For anything not .NET related (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP) I use a mixture of Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and Atom with a bunch of extensions to make things smoother.

All of these editors have their positives and negatives, but overall they average out to a fairly good development experience. Most of my complaints are language related rather than editor related (static typing, strict style rules, etc).

However, as a developer, all these editors still make you do a lot of work. Wouldn’t it be great if your editor could be like a programming buddy; pointing out mistakes, unused code or potential security issues?

Over the coming weeks and months I intend to document the process of building Parsec - an intelligent, ultra-fast IDE for the web that will help you bring your development experience up to light-speed.

Join me on this journey!