Best of all, when it’s time to start coding, any plain text editor–even Notepad–can do the job. So why should you spend $49 on WebStorm, a development environment for JavaScript, HTML ...

Performance is not an issue when using WebStorm. Startup may be slower than Sublime Text, which is basically an editor, but it’s faster than most of the other actual IDEs and much faster than ...

At $70, it is also incredibly expensive for a text editor–in fact, it’s $21 more than JetBrains’ excellent WebStorm JavaScript IDE. But for those who prize a simple approach with plenty of ...